Genetic Variation
The unification of natural selection with mendelian genetics
What is Neo-Darwinian synthesis
The gene involved in skin color production
What is MC1R?
a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects
What is intersectionality?
A trait that increases an individual’s fitness relative to those who don’t have it
What is Adaptation?
The time period of the Rwandan Genocide.
This measure of variation in a trait within a population is due to genetic differences rather than environmental factors.
What is heritability?
(e.g., skin color and intelligence are highly heritable traits)
According to this rule, warm-blooded species will have darker pigmentation the closer they live to the equator, which is traditionally humid.
What is Gloger's rule?
the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
Promoting the reproduction of individuals with beneficial traits
What is positive eugenics?
The year slavery was abolished in Brazil.
What is 1888?
The continent with the highest skin-tone variability.
What is Africa?
This pigmentation develops after sun exposure and is responsible for tanning, unlike the melanin you're born with.
What is facultative pigmentation?
applying concepts of Natural Selection and ‘survival of the fittest’ to a society or race
The idea that humans are descended from a single pair of ancestors
What is monogenesis?
The years that Hitler's Third Reich was in power in Germany.
What is 1933 to 1945?
One of the oldest genetic lineages in Africa
Who are the Khoisan people?
The pigmentation you were born with is determined by genetics and not by exposure to the sun.
What is constitutive pigmentation?
A body of legal scholarship that examines social, cultural, and legal issues primarily as they relate to race and racism in the US.
What is critical race theory?
a geographical barrier prevents gene flow between populations on either side of the barrier
What is allopatric speciation?
The year apartheid was codified into law in South Africa.
What is 1948?
This rule states that mammals will have shorter and thicker extremities (like limbs, ears, and tails) in colder climates to reduce heat loss.
What is Allen's rule?
(Note: this also overlaps with Bergmann's rule that states that mammals have larger body sizes in high latitudes and cold climates.)
The two primary types of melanin
What are pheomelanin and eumelanin?
This racial caste system operated primarily in American South between 1877 and the mid-1960s, relegating African Americans to second-class citizenship through rigid anti-black laws and legitimized racism.
What is Jim Crow segregation?
The three strata of intelligence according to CHC theory
narrow abilities, broad abilities, and
general ability
The year slavery was abolished in the United States
What is 1865?