ANTH 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Phenotype, Franz Boas, Binomial Nomenclature
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System of biological classification based on physical similarity binomial nomenclature. This is before we understood the role of genes. Linnaean classification is now organized by genetic taxonomy, not physical similarity. Scientists of the early 1800"s and 1900"s sought to find biological basis for racialized difference. Used also to explain differences in intelligence and other capacities scientific racism and. An understanding of racialized difference was used to justify colonization and slavery. Franz boas argued against an understanding of race as biological. No relationship between race and capacity for culture. Changing ideas within anthropological research in the 1900"s. Physical anthropologists key to understanding race as not biological. Assumed biological difference used to justify differences in rights, roles, and social power. Justification for colonial domination, slavery, and other modes of social oppression. All humans share more than 99. 9% of our dna with every other human. Genes that make up our physical appearance are less than . 1% of our genetic code.
