Human Variation Quotes
There were some people at the time who believed that by means of effort and following moral precepts there would be an equality of achievement. There were also many who began to observe that much of the differences between individuals were are result of environment—opportunity for education, socialization and other factors. Science is still trying to determine the relative causal contributions to individual differences of genetics and environment.
This quotation gives is a view of regeneration, evolution and species development before Darwin. It also shows us that a number of the Founding Fathers were quite current with the thinking of the major intellectuals of Europe.
Morton the had the largest collection of skulls I the world, and “measured” the cranial capacity. The implication of superior Caucasian intellect so widely believed sprung from his research. Today, we not only know that cranial capacity is not correlated with intellectual capacity, but Stephen J. Gould has actually demonstrated that Morton’s measurements were incorrect anyway.
The population was an amalgam of Spaniards, Englishmen and other Europeans, Blacks originally brought over as slaves from Africa, and indigenous people from many different tribes.
