ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Structural Linguistics, Kinesics, Proxemics
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Human variation, ethnicity, and race: human diversity, humans share 99. 9% of dna. Any genetic differences in human is only 0. 1%. We all have a common ancestor that is very recent 200,000 to 150,000 years ago: skin color populations in africa had very dark skin. Type a and type ab blood is more susceptible to small pox. This is (cid:374)ot true a(cid:374)d (cid:374)ot (cid:448)alid. (cid:862)ra(cid:272)e(cid:863) as des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)ed is (cid:272)ulturall(cid:455) created. None of the traits associated with race are binary all traits are a range: haplogroups are groups of people with shared mutations, folk typology, ra(cid:272)e, fro(cid:373) a(cid:374) a(cid:374)thropologist"s perspe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e is a folk t(cid:455)polog(cid:455). B(cid:455) (cid:374)a(cid:373)i(cid:374)g e(cid:448)er(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g i(cid:374) your culture, you are classifying and categorizing them at the same time it is not based on science: the burukumin in japan are considered a separate race. The burukumin are descendants of outcasts of the feudal system in japan occupations in the caste system.
