Assignment Task:
Need a question concerning this week's material. I GOT THE QUOTE and respond to question below
Why do we always imagine males making the tools, tending fires, or painting on caves? Were cavemen all that mattered in human evolution?
(This is a anthropology course)
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how and why human biological variation exists primarily within populations, not between them.
- Explain how factors like gene flow, physiological diversity, and the functionality of the immune system reflect and shape human biodiversity.
- Identify how morphological traits such as skin pigmentation and body shape, size, and stature reflect evolutionary and cultural adaptations to certain environmental pressures.
- Understand why there are no valid biological justifications for dividing humans into distinct races or subspecies.
- Clarify how racial differences-and scientific and popular claims about those differences-are constructed upon arbitrary and historically shifting physical markers.
- Explain how factors like racial discrimination, social inequalities, stress, and rapid social change can produce biological effects through embodiment.