Gould

     In this text, Gould mentions Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, the German anatomist and naturalist who established racial classification.
     Blumenbach divided human into five groups; the Caucasian variety, the Mongolian variety, the Ethiopian variety, the American variety, and the Malay variety. Blumenbach thought Caucasian as the most brilliant race. Blumenbach's idea is that Caucasian, people from small region Caucasus, is the most beautiful people in the world and is original human. Blumenback's racial classification changed human arder from a geographic to a hierarchical ordering based on beauty. Though it seems that Blumenback was a racist, he was the least racist.  He thought that racial diversity arose from differences in climate and habit.
     Blumenback's idea is, as Gould says, based on his subjective sense of beauty. Therefore, I think his idea is not logical at all and I cannot agree with him at some points. For example, Blumenback stated that a Georgian female skull was the most beautiful form of skull. It is obvious for us that the form of skull could not be a criteria to evaluate human. I felt his idea is even humorous. Though, I agree with other his idea--racial differences come from diversity of climate and life style, and we cannot evaluate human's level based on skin color.