In the early 20th century, many anthropologists accepted and taught the belief that biologically distinct races were isomorphic with distinct linguistic, cultural, and social groups, while popularly applying that belief to the field of eugenics, in conjunction with a practice that is now called scientific racism. After the Nazi eugenics program, racial essentialism lost widespread popularity. Race anthropologists were pressured to acknowledge findings coming from studies of culture and population genetics, and to revise their conclusions about the sources of phenotypic variation. A significant number of modern anthropologists and biologists in the West came to view race as an invalid genetic or biological designation. COUNT 5
QSN1 Who taught and accepted the belief that biologically distinct races were isomorphic? ANS1 many anthropologists QSN2 What practice was combined with the field of eugenics regarding the distinctness of social groups? ANS2 scientific racism QSN3 What effect did the Nazi eugenics program have on racial essentialism?  ANS3 lost widespread popularity QSN4 What conclusions were race anthropologists pressured to revise? ANS4 sources of phenotypic variation QSN5 What did a lot of modern anthropologists in the West come to view racial designation as? ANS5 invalid