This is interesting. To forensic anthropologists, race is not a biological concept; rather, they try to determine what race the society the person lived in would have assigned them to. They mention some interesting results, which are relative to where the person lives and even the time period in which they lived there:
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Why? The authors highlight just how many social differences could be discerned by forensic anthropologists. Given an original sample of bones classified into social groups, a forensic anthropologist can with high probability predict to which group another case of bones belong. They can separate Japanese from Chinese from Vietnamese, or northern Japanese from southern Japanese. Or, and perhaps most incredibly, “white males born between 1840 and 1890 can be separated from white males born 1930 to 1980 very well, and they are distinguished by time, and would appear to qualify as different races” (2009:74). Group bones by birth-year, run the statistics, and then introduce a new sample: the sample can be accurately classified, and a new race born every fifty years!
http://www.livinganthropologically.com/ ... unks-race/Between 1890 and 1930, white males apparently morphed into an entirely different race. There are also problems with using genetic testing considering that non-Subsaharan African populations are mere subsets of the Subsaharan African populations.
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24 Sep 2016, 3:36 am
