I do not believe that, my spouse has her degree in archaeology and has done digs.
The reasons you describe are political, I don’t believe they speak to hard science so much as societal structure. Of course there are physical differences between certain groups, but you appear to be referring to how law enforcement treats race, not evolutionary biologists would.
I would have to assume that your wife would know that Forensic Anthropology is the study of human remains that involves applying skeletal analysis and techniques in archaeology to solving criminal cases.
You managed a polite reply to that post. I congratulate you, because I just couldn’t hold back.
Edit - also I now realise this is a quite sophisticated trolley and I fell for it. Ich bin ganz Dumm…the flag is the giveaway.
And she does.
Why do you not seem to apply this knowledge to your conception of how it is a niche that is useful only to such endeavors?
The law’s specific identification and classifications of race exist due to law and social structure.
Using the racial categorization incorporated into law enforcement to self-justify racial categorization does not prove any point.
Wait… you’re Mrs. L? The one holding the dog-leash?
Obviously the world is a complicated place, and I agree with the AAPA statement that there are no pure races. The book was specifically addressing the issue of race determination via skeletal remains. It is not a crazy eugenics book from Nazi Germany, but a current textbook, trying to teach important, measurable science, in an era where they are likely to encounter people who will shout profanity at them if one mentions things that the listener has very strong preconceptions about.
the following is a table scanned from that textbook. One of many. It does not use race to judge anyone or promote any political view. It is literally about using any data that you can to identify skeletal remains. In almost every such case, there are family members who are desperate to know if it is in fact their loved one on the table. It is not about telling anyone what they want to hear.
Well, I don’t think so of them as typical. Pew Research polls consistently show that ‘typical Americans’ are socially liberal, want single-payer socialized medicine, and believe that - to use the Pew phrase - “humans and other living things evolved over time”.
The more important question that people from other countries keep shouting at Americans is “Why do you keep electing these unrepresentative, anti-democratic, self-serving, unscrupulous opportunists?”
That, and “Is this mike working?”
So is Monty Python. The Goodies are from the 70s though
I didn’t know you were French.
The Pythons were really 70s. The first programme was in October 1969. I remember it well because we all knew it was going to be good and some people had decided to sit in the JCR* from about 4p.m. on to get a good view of the (one) TV. During the broadcast it was standing room only at the back.
But in fact it didn’t reach its best till the 1970s.
Edit - my memory is faulty. The first episode, on 5th Oct., was seen by only those of us who were up early. By the next week, the word had gone round. It was a Big Thing.
*Junior combination room. I was at a single sex college. That’s another thing the 70s brought us; the utterly amazing discovery that young men could cohabit with young women and still pass their exams. This discovery had been made at other universities but at Cambridge you can’t rush things.
ohhhh… I didn’t think that leaked out past our laptops! TOBIN!!!
Edited: Oh right. That book. I didn’t know people here had read it or identified us from it.
I believe it’s also in a book. A real one. On paper.
Yes I know the one you mean. The one that my friends in their 30s and 40s would run up to in a bookstore, flip furiously till they reached the page, then run away giggling and teeheeing.
Evidently my reputation preceded me.
Thank goodness that sort of thing would never happen under capitalism.
I would say it’s at least partly because the maps have been intentionally rigged by those self-serving opportunists so as to lump all of the people who give sensible answers to Pew Research poll questions into as few constituencies as possible, thereby reducing their risk of getting turfed out any time soon.
Would you like me to call it Concord?
What an interesting thing to have on one’s coffee table!
Well the book was discussed in the original questions thread so how could I not comment on our inclusion in it?
Ok, I majored in Archaeology, but also studied anthropology. My Wife is a physician, and I have a son studying Emergency Medicine while minoring in Forensic Anthropology. We have odd reading material. Also, it was published in a journal, not a hardback book. We also have two different anatomical skeletons in our house. But I could produce way weirder books than that. We have an original Malleus Maleficarum. There is a print on the wall that I can see from here titled “The people of Florida Sacrificing their First Borne to the Sun”.
(apparently I am now repeating myself. apologies)
