Paleoserology

See Also

• Cephalic Index and Physical Anthropology
• Clines
• Frank Livingstone

MacGregor's restoration of La Chapelle aux Saints, provided with hat, hair, and clothing by the artist. Although we do not know that the reconstruction of the soft parts is accurate, nevertheless the facial features were probably essentially human. This picture serves to illustrate the fact that our impressions of racial differences between groups of humankind are often largely influenced by modes of hair dressing, the presence or absence of a beard and clothing.(1)

"What is a race? It is essentially a lineage. A racial group is merely an extremely extended family that inbreeds to some extent. Thus, race is a fundamental aspect of the human condition because we are all born into families. Burying our heads in the sand and refusing to think clearly about this bedrock fact of life only makes the inevitable problems caused by race harder to overcome." (2)

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