ANTHRO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: East Los Angeles College, Probability Distribution, Dark Skin
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Race and intelligence: not a biological issue. *human intelligence is a plastic trait shaped by environmental influence,epigenetic (relating to or arising from nongenetic influences on gene expression. ) stuff. The four facts of human bio variation. It is important to look at it for medicine like populations at greater risk to disease, adverse reactions to medicine, forensic knowledge to study human remains, to make sense of how we change and continue to change. There"s a level of patterning above the level of the individual. No, at least not measurable biological reality verifiable by scientific testing. People with long term ancestry from the same part of the world are going to be more like each other in measurable way from they are to people from further ancestry. You can tell the difference between people who are asia and africa but its way harder to tell the difference between people from iraq and iran.
