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GENETICS AND THE ARYAN DEBATE

    1 Author(s):  VIVEK SINGH

Vol -  6, Issue- 4 ,         Page(s) : 9 - 16  (2015 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

Along with the birth of anthropology, the nineteenth century saw the development of semi-scientific to wholly unscientific disciplines, such as anthropometry, craniometry or phrenology. Unquestioningly accepting the prevalent concept of race, some scientists constructed facial and nasal indexes or claimed to measure the skull’s volume for every race, of course with the result that the white race’s cranium was the most capacious and its owner, therefore, the most intelligent; others went further, insisting that amidst the white race, only the Germans were the “pure” descendants of the “Aryan race” which was destined the rule the earth.

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7. William F. Allman, “Eve Explained: How Ancient Humans Spread Across the Earth” (on the website of Discovery Channel, 21 August 2004).
8. Stephen Oppenheimer, The Real Eve, op. cit., p. 152.

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