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"The practice of inferring race from bones is also somewhat controversial. While today's forensic anthropologists don't like to talk about it, the discipline ha
by basicplus2 9y ago
"The practice of inferring race from bones is also somewhat controversial. While today's forensic anthropologists don't like to talk about it, the discipline has its roots in the pseudoscientific 19th-century practice of using skull measurements to prove Caucasian intellectual superiority."
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/01/alas_poor_yorick_or_is_it_othello.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
- dozzie 9y agoThough the skulls and knees, for instance, are different between races. It doesn't mean that people of one race are smarter because of skull size or shape, but the bones do have the shape discernibly different. Similarly you don't dismiss chemistry just because it has unscientific alchemic roots.