CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Ingroups And Outgroups, Ethology, Human Genome Project
10 Feb 2014
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To use race comes from the 19th century. Poor idea of culture and biological species. The idea we had of race followed the concept of hierarchy. Human societies were evolving in a way similar to how higher species evolved . He felt that the north american race was superior to all other races. During early years, every civilized man passes through that phase of character exhibited by the barbarous race from which he is descended. As the child"s features flat nose, forward-opening nostrils, large lips, wide-apart eyes, absent frontal sinus, &c. resemble those of the savage, so, too do his instincts. Dunn"s civilization and cerebral development (1864) argues that (nordic) Europeans enjoyed whole brain development , while the carib, negro and. Irish from leitrim, sligo and mayo experienced lesser development. Applied concept of recapitulation ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny to child development as an explanation for racial differences. Our individual growth recapitulates the growth of species.
