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This 3 page paper answers questions about clines, race, society and the human species. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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meaningless. Instead, these scientists are suggesting that the word "clines" is more appropriate as a means of identifying groups of people. One of the leading proponents of this theory,
Dr. C. Loring Brace argues that if we were to walk from the equator to Europe, we would see peoples skin gradually change, from almost black to very pale white.
The reason for the difference in skin color is the strength of the sun: at the equator sunlight is so strong that peoples skin is dark to protect them (Brace,
2000). In this context, skin color has "survival value" and "a trait possessing a survival value that is greater under some circumstances than under others, ... will have a different
pattern of geographical variation, and no two such patterns will coincide" (Brace, 2000). Brace is arguing, then, that geography is the determining factor in the distribution of these traits: "The
gradient of the distribution of each is called a cline and those clines are completely independent of one another" (Brace, 2000). This distribution of survival values is what lies behind
the saying "There are no races, there are only clines" (Brace, 2000). Brace goes on to say that although we can recognize people from various parts of the world, what
we are actually looking at "is a pattern of features derived from common ancestry in the area in question, and these are largely without different survival value" (Brace, 2000). People
in one area of the world look more like each other than they do people from other regions, and this Brace considers "family resemblance writ large" (Brace, 2000). We dont
notice the change if we move slowly from one place to another, because there isnt much variation from one group to the next, but if we jump from Ethiopia to
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