Anthropology and modern life

· 1942

Anthropology treats of man as a member of a social group--Pure and applied anthropology. Significance of the term “Race”--Overlapping of racial types--Subjective existence of types--Racial heredity and family lines--Inbred and heterogeneous types--Functional differences between individuals of the same bodily form--Environmental influences upon bodily form--Races considered from an evolutionary viewpoint--Relation between the size of the brain and intelligence--Man as a domesticated form--Physiological and mental differences between races--Difficulty of distinguishing between hereditary and environmental conditions--Significance of intelligence tests--Tests of American Negroes--Relative impo…

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