MWP3 Article 3 Summary with Supporting Quotations

Article 3 Summary:
Bhopal writes an article dis-empowering the age-old origin of the belief that there is a scientific distinction between one ethnicity and another--the birthplace of the concept of "race" scientifically--instilled by 18th-century anthropologist Blumenbach.  He identifies the key misconceptions in Blumenbach's work as the classification of the races from their skull shapes and patterns, and how this was taken as an actually genetic rift between peoples of different continents and cultures, an unfortunate and misrepresented observations that has negatively impacted scientific thinking, studying, and progression in the three centuries since Blumenbach's thesis was presented.  Bhopal believes that the only way to create an unbiased path for future science to travel upon is to dispel this discriminatory origin and to conduct studies under the assumption that, aside from cultural differences, all races are constituents of the human race.  He also writes in response to the common misinterpretation that Blumenbach  intended for the negative stereotypes to be produced from his work, counterarguing that Blumenbach was actually trying to write in order to establish that all races were once species; later scientists such as Darwin chose to pick what they liked from his work to bend it to their construed theories. 


Quotations:
-"[Blumenbach] dismissed leucoplakia, a condition characterised by loss of skin pigmentation, as merely a disease and not even a variety of humanity."
-"Blumenbach’s work was a turning point in the history of race and science, although it was nearly 200 years before the lessons were properly absorbed"