Sentence examples for human racial from inspiring English sources

Hoffman's skilled, finely detailed portraits brought her in 1930 a remarkable commission from the Field Museum of Natural History to execute a series of 110 life-size figures (25 full-figure, 85 in bust) of human racial types.

Its ramifications are everywhere, from questions of who will survive in battle, to implications about human behavior when applications of the law of error leads to the birth of statistics, to the expedition led by Louis Agassiz into the Brazilian jungle to try to document a hierarchy of human racial types.

As a polygenist who considered the major human racial groups as separate species, Broca wrote influential works on "hybridization," or the mixture of races, arguing that some mixtures of closely related races were beneficial ("eugenic") while mixtures of greatly differing races were harmful ("dysgenic").

A strong consensus has emerged among modern evolutionary biologists that human racial categories represent a social construct, not a biological datum (Lewontin [2006]; Graves [2006]).

And just as the demarcation of non-human species is justified through its scientific usefulness, so too are human racial categories justified.

If discreteness is indispensable to a human racial taxonomy, then mismatches can only be avoided, if at all, through human intervention.

On the one hand, evangelicals love to preach the cross as the symbol of Christ repairing the relationship between God and humanity, but yet, they refuse to recognize the need for social repair in human relationships (racial or otherwise).

As obviously sensible as Mr. Obama's proposition might be in a nation of as many hues, tongues and creeds as the United States, it struggles against self-defeating human behavior: racial and ethnic diversity undermine support for public investment in social welfare.

Causes include human rights, racial and social justice, environmental stewardship and immigration.

In the last two years alone, the association has issued position papers on a wide range of issues, including refugee resettlement, human trafficking, racial profiling, and campus sexual violence, among others.

This extraordinary growth has allowed the ACLU to expand its nationwide litigation, lobbying and public education efforts, including new initiatives focused on human rights, racial justice, religious freedom, technology and privacy, reproductive freedom, criminal law reform and LGBT rights.