Question

Subject is ANTHROPOLOGY 130

Why Does Loring Brace oppose and George Gill support the concept of biologicals races in humans? make sure to summarize the scientific evidence used by each scientist?   

Answer 1

According to Loring Brace there are no such things like human races. The term race has been originated by the fact that long term residents of people in a similar place give rise to some characteristic values and commonalities among them which forces people to think that they belong to a distinct common race. But this is a kind of perception. Thus the belief is just based on common sense and there is no rationale behind it. Also, Brance says that is there any natural boundary tat occurs between the human races? The answer is no so he believes that there are no such concepts of that of human races. The people at any adjacent stops along the way look like one another more than they look like anyone else since, after all, they are related to one another. As a rule, the boy marries the girl next door throughout the whole world, but the next door goes on without stop from one region to another.

According to George Gill, the human races are there. This fact is based on the rationale of similar bone analysis. The "reality of race" therefore depends more on the definition of reality than on the definition of race. If we choose to accept the system of racial taxonomy that physical anthropologists have traditionally established—major races: black, white, etc.—then one can classify human skeletons within it just as well as one can living humans.