Anthpology

1. Human Variation: Race & Skin Color. See files.

2. Human Variation: Body Size & Infectious Disease Power point. See files. 

3. Required film Race and Intelligence: Science's Last Taboo Race and Intelligence Special, Science's Last Taboo (Links to an external site.)  

4.  Human Variation: Race & Skin Color video lecture https://youtu.be/V7Bj7xh_bkg (Links to an external site.)  

5. Human Variation: Body Size & Infectious Disease video lecture https://youtu.be/ndaLcwv2Sx8

1. 18 minutes in, the narrator has an interview with Jay Rushton, a psychologist who still argues that there is a biological hierarchy in intelligence. Using your knowledge from this week, our week on the human brain, and the article "Why Genes Don't Count (For Racial Differences in Health), explain why he is wrong. (His arguments suggest that you can identify race from skeletons and DNA, and that white and east Asian women produce larger brained babies). Why is brain size not relevant?

2. Discuss how modernization is impacting "intelligence" across the world using the information presented in the film Race and Intellifence: Science's Last Taboo. 

Assignment should reflect all style requirements listed in the syllabus and include your references in APA style.