ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lymphoma, Bren Light Machine Gun
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Separated humans into 5 categories: americanus, europaeus, asiaticus, afer, monstrosus. Count&de&buffon varieties&of&the&human&species&(1749: descriptive, rejected classifications, emphasized unity of species, behavioral & cultural biases. Francis&galton&: 1869 heredity genius , prominence is inborn, statistics, used biology to reinforce social prejudices. Charles&davenport: 1911 heredity in relation to eugenics , established eugenics in us scientific program. How!was!eugenics!to!be!carried!out?: restriction of immigration, restriction of the propagation of undesirable heritable traits, encouragement of breeding between individuals with desirable genetic traits. Racial: examinations of biological differences among human groups, biological differences among human groups to reinforce social divisions. Carleton&coon&: the origins of races 1963, divided modern humans into 5 subspecies, suggested that they existed since middle pleistocene. Criticisms: using cultural criteria to rank races. 3&forces&: natural selection, genetic drift, gene flow. Genetic&pathologies: human&biochemical&polymorphisms, blood cell antigens (abo, cellular recognition processes (hla, miscellaneous variant forms of enzymes, mitochondrial dna, rflp (restriction fragment length polymorphisms) &genetics&of&the&individual: human genome project, human genome diversity project.
