Are Ethnic Groups Biological “Species” to the Human Brain?

By Francisco J. Gil-White. Current Anthropology, 2001

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Culture and Cognition (2019, neutral): “Henrich and Gil-White (2001) argue that, in exchange for access, learners grant higher status to individuals whom they wish to imitate; market forces then influence individual choices, with lessdesired targets willing to grant more access.”
Branching, blending, and the evolution of cultural similarities and differences among human populations (2006, background): “…suggests that humans may possess evolved cognitive mechanisms that lead them to interact preferentially with individuals who are similar to themselves (Buston & Emlen, 2001) and to be prejudiced against individuals from unfamiliar ethnic groups (Gil-White, 2001; Schaller, Park, & Faulkner, 2003).”
Determinants of Gender Essentialism in College Students (2008, background): “2000; Rehder 2007), and in other cultural contexts as well (Astuti et al. 2004; Diesendruck 2001; Diesendruck and Gelman 1999; Gil-White 2001; Mahalingam 1998).”
Evolved Disease-Avoidance Mechanisms and Contemporary Xenophobic Attitudes (2004, background): “The violation of local cultural norms not only signals the threat of contagion, but may also signal a threat to social efficiency and effective group functioning (Gil-White, 2001).”
Essentially Biased: Why People Are Fatalistic About Genes (2017, background): “In addition, as with essences, genes are understood to be transferred from one generation to another (Gil-White, 2001).”
Division of Labor, Economic Specialization, and the Evolution of Social Stratification (2008, result): “This work is consistent with experimental findings in psychology and field data from sociology and anthropology showing that both children and adults have a powerful tendency to learn a wide variety of things from successful individuals (Henrich and Gil-White 2001).”
Culture, essentialism, and agency: Are individuals universally believed to be more real entities than groups? (2005, background): “Some researchers (e.g. Gil-White, 2001) suggest that social groups are essentialized when they are believed to have biological or genetic bases.”
Dual-inheritance theory: The evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution (2007, background): “…and degrees of adaptation vary among populations (Shennan, 2001; Henrich, 2004) and how might this have influenced the basic cognitive abilities of different hwnan groups and (ii) why do ethnically-marked groups emerge and how did our 'ethnic psychology' develop (Gil-White, 2001; McElreath eta!”
On the relationship between interindividual cultural transmission and population-level cultural diversity: a case study of weaving in Iranian tribal populations (2009, background): “the existence of ecological boundaries, language barriers, endogamy, and xenophobic prejudices (e.g., Barth, 1969; Durham, 1990, 1992; Gil-White, 2001; McElreath, Boyd, & Richerson, 2003).”
Priorities in social categories. (2010, background): “…stems primarily from studies of individuals in Northern America and Western Europe, and that not all societies would view skin color as being equally critical in person perception (and may instead focus on other dimensions such as ethnicity that are not always visually depicted; Gil-White, 2001).”
Psychological Essentialism of Human Categories (2007, background): “Some elements of this essentialist hierarchy are common across cultures and subcultures (e.g., essentialism of ethnicity; see Gil-White, 2001); others are more variable (e.g., essentialism of social class; see Mahalingam, 2003).”