Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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By no means all anthropologists share Dr. Boas' belief in the tremendous physical influence of environment. But when he has something to say they listen respectfully.
"It has been known for a long time," said Dr. Boas, "that the bulk of the body as expressed by stature and weight is easily modified by ... favorable conditions of life. In Europe there has been a gradual increase of bulk of body between 1850 and 1914. Adult immigrants who...
The time of puberty was found by Dr. Boas to be more a matter of environment than of "race." Contrary to popular belief, climate has little to do with it. In New York City the onset of puberty occurs at practically the same age among Negroes and whites of various...
The young of immigrants who move out of the family orbit change their motor habits completely, begin to gesture like those in the new environment. Mixed marriages may alter the gestures of the spouses. Even in the same country motor habits are not stable. The British, for example, have not...
Boas observed that nowhere on earth was there such a thing as a pure race, and that the term "race" was a vague and ap proximate one at best. He doubted that there were any "superior" races. To Boas it seemed that if one person was innately superior to another...