Race Amalgamation:
-Scientific Racism: Africans were on lower evolutionary scale; outcasts; incapable of reaching full development.
-“The Law of Similarity”: “A civilized race does not readily intermingle with one less advanced in civilization, for the same reasons which prevent a lord from marrying a peasant girl… helps to keep the race separate”.
-says children of black women and white men are inferior to “pure blacks”
-Race mixing caused degradation in offspring; intelligence was superior though (higher brain mass).
TMM:
-Morton misconstrued data to make White data seem better
-believed he could identify races just by looking at the skulls
-skulls never grouped by sex
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