There is a science behind the anthropology of race, too, and many people aren't aware of it, say officials from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which is opening an exhibit on the topic this week.
Skeletal remains are not a foolproof way of determining someone's race, for example. Climate conditions and sun intensity of ancestral homelands — Africa, for instance — influenced skin color through the evolutionary process. Visitors to the traveling exhibit “Race: Are We So Different?” will learn about these scientific aspects of race, along with cultural issues.
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I like learning about "race". It's interesting to see just how much of a variety of sizes, shapes, and colors of people there are in the world. Looking at how people are different in relation to each other as well as how they are similar is fascinating. I'd love to see what would happen if we were to somehow find a way to make a similar to different scale of people in the world just to see how alike we all are, and how, we can always find something similar with another person. Seeing as it is expected that you have somewhere around 10 people who look very similar to you on the planet, it would be cool to see how those people look in relation to their families, and your family, and essentially how everyone would be connected to each other by appearance and blood.
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