Does Race Exist

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Does Race Exist?

In the NOVA article I read there were responses from two anthropologists, Dr Loring Brace of the University of Michigan and Dr. George Gill of the University of Wyoming, who both have different opinions on this very controversial topic. They both were interviewed by NOVA Online about their views on the existence of race. Although the two have many times had different radical view, they readily joined together with six other anthropologist file a suit against the federal government for the right to study “Kennewick Man”, a skeleton which has many clues that can see what humans looked like thousands of years ago.

The process that scientists is called facial – reconstruction. This method uses the bone structure along with clay to mold the skull into a replica of a face. Two purposes that this method is used for includes identifying the recent dead so that they can be reunited with their kin, and then the other is to give the people of today a glimpse of what our ancestors might have appeared like in their lifetime.

The proponent in this article, Dr Gill is one of the anthropologists who today believe that the human races are biologically valid and real. The other scientists that agree with Gill’s findings are sometimes confused and tend to lean towards the facts that on a blood level, Gill’s findings are inaccurate with similarities of some cultures as apposed to others that Gill claims are not at all similar. The blood resting of different cultures and ethnic backgrounds doesn’t support the biological real...