Sentence examples for races of human from inspiring English sources

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AMERICAN RESTORATION AUTHORITY "Together We'll Surprise the World!" I felt the perfunctory liberal chill at seeing entire races of human beings so summarily reduced and stereotyped but was also voyeuristically interested in seeing people's Credit rankings.

Given that Darwin was, however, an established successful Victorian man living during the height of the British Empire, it is less surprising that he would use the term "value," especially with respect to different "races" of human beings.

Spencer enlists evolutionary theory to claim that different races of human beings exist and form a clear hierarchy: "The civilized man departs more widely from the general type of the placental mammalia than do the lower human races" (1857, 18).

The casual assumption of innate cognitive, moral, and emotional deficiencies in nonwhite humans goes back to David Hume and Thomas Carlyle, but, after Darwin, racism assumed a new, pseudo-scientific form, guided by the assumption that the "races" of human beings instantiated both earlier, wilder types and later, civilized types, each with the fixed characteristics of its breed.

But to contemporary anthropologists and sociologists, the notion that there are distinct "races" of human beings, each with its own specific attributes, doesn't make much sense.

Although 6-month-olds recognize different races of human faces as well as different monkey faces, 9- to 10-month-olds recognize reliably only faces of their own species and race (for a review, see Lee et al., 2011).

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Coon set forth the controversial theory that five distinct major races of humans existed before the emergence of Homo sapiens as the dominant species.

Beginning in the 1840s, racist ideas became more overt in educated circles as anthropologists proposed that the different races of humans had originated, (i.e., been created) separately.

Alan Templeton proved as much in 1998 when he sequenced genomes and found no DNA-based support for the idea that different "races" of humans exist.

They're really just finding DNA common amongst all races of humans and assigning it as black".

The book uses postmodern techniques most strikingly in its depiction of races of humans as different kinds of animals, with Jews as mice, Germans as cats and non-Jewish Poles as pigs.

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