介绍： This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.
"So humans are really really good, or at least Western traditionally educated humans are really, really good at categorizing things into types." Jennifer Raff. She's an anthropologist at the University of Kansas. Raff spoke last month at New ...

介绍： This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.
"So humans are really really good, or at least Western traditionally educated humans are really, really good at categorizing things into types." Jennifer Raff. She's an anthropologist at the University of Kansas. Raff spoke last month at New York University's Journalism Institute.
"And if you go back through the history of physical anthropology, which we now call ourselves biological anthropologists to distance ourselves from that history, we as a discipline have a lot to answer for. Because we were the ones who measured crania, measured skulls, to try to come up with...we called it the Caucasoid, and the Negroid and the Mongoloid types, right, this ideal specimen of a cranium that fit these perfect measurements. And that was the type. And we tried to fit in then every other person into one of these categories, and that...really influenced eugenics."
"We still have that notion, are you this group, are you that group, when in reality we're mixtures, most of us are very mixed.

这里是科学美国人——60秒科学。我是史蒂夫·米尔斯基。
“人类，或至少是接受过西方传统教育的人类，真的很擅长将事物分类。”堪萨斯大学的人类学家詹妮弗·拉夫说到。拉夫上个月在纽约大学新闻学院发表了讲话。
“如果你回顾一下人类体格学的历史——我们现在称自己为生物人类学家，让自己与这段历史隔离开——作为一门学科，我们有很多问题需要解答。因为我们以前测量过头盖骨和颅骨，以提出所谓的‘白色人种'、‘黑色人种'和‘蒙古人种'的概念，对吗？颅骨的理想标本符合这些完美的测量值。就是该人种的典型。我们试图让所有人都归入这些人种类型，这确实影响了优生学。”
“我们仍然有这种观念，‘你是这类人种吗'、‘你是那类人种吗'，而实际上我们是混种，我们大多数人都是混种。