Anthropology Immigrant Populations Environment Determines Ones Skull Shape More than Race Essay

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http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2002/10/56101 (Links to an external site.)

Article from Wired Magazine on Franz Boas' research on variation in skull shape and recent challenges to his interpretations of the data.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/does-race-exist.html (Links to an external site.)

Essays from two physical anthropologists, one supporting and one opposed to the concept of biological race.

Can You Tell a Person's Race from His or Her Skull? (Links to an external site.)

Article from Slate about the strengths and weaknesses of race identification in forensic anthropology.


Answer the questions below about these articles:

1-What were Franz Boas' findings on head shape in immigrant populations? How do the recent findings of Jantz and Sparks described in the Wired article differ from Boas?

2-Why does Loring Brace oppose and George Gill support the concept of biological races in humans? Make sure to summarize the scientific evidence used by each scientist? What is Gill's view on race and variation?

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Running head: ANTHROPOLOGY

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Anthropology
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ANTHROPOLOGY

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Anthropology Questions

The founder of modern anthropology found out that the environment determines one’s
skull shape more than race. Boaz revealed in his study that involved immigrants that exposure to
the environment significantly impacted one's cranial form. Boaz viewed it as a proof of cranial
plasticity, the notion that skull dimensions are affecte...


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