SOC 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Music Psychology, Genetic Marker, Richard Lewontin
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People use this difference to classify people into races. Notion of race: division of people that are biological, or even genetic. Can identify people by just looking at them. Race assumes external differences are linked to other internal differences. Belief: based on the idea that race is biologically real - but our genetics tells us this is false. Can"t find genetic marker that is in everybody of a particular race and in nobody of another race. Can"t find any genetic markers that define race. Students compare skin colors, blood cells, and spit sample to compare genetic similarity"s and differences. Assume that they will be most similar to same race. Whites with whites, blacks with blacks, latin americans with latin americans. But race is not based on biology, but rather an idea that we ascribe to biology. The measured amount of genetic variation is small in humans. Humans the most similar to each other genetically of all species.
