by Chris Smith
Last Updated Jan 5, 2023
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About Human Biology, Behavior and Evolution
This guide provides selected course-specific resources for AN102: Human Biology, Behavior and Evolution , taught by Professor Carolyn Hodges-Simeon, and MET AN102, taught by Mentor Mustafa.
Featured Resource: Evidence for Human Evolution, The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program
Understanding racism in physical (biological) anthropology (AJPA, Wiley)The mainstream of American physical anthropology began as racist and eugenical science that defended slavery, restricted “non‐Nordic” immigration, and justified Jim Crow segregation. After World War II, the field became more anti‐racial than anti‐racist. It has continued as a study of natural influences on human variation and thus continues to evade the social histories of inequitable biological variation. Also reflecting its occupancy of white space, biological anthropology
continues to deny its own racist history and marginalizes the contributions of Blacks. Critical disciplinary history and a shift toward biocultural studies might begin an anti‐racist human biology.