Our Double Feature What the Howe?

What the Howe? apologizes for not recording last week. We ordered some new equipment that got lost in transit. This week we talk about gender roles, race, and the Ahmaud Arbery case. We open by discussing an article comparing the average age of having children for males and females between Neanderthals in Iceland and Homo Sapiens in Africa between 100k-500k years ago. We debate how much gender roles are influenced by genetics and how much are influenced by societal expectations. We transition by talking about how African people groups are actually more human than non-African people groups because non-African people groups contain as much as 2% Neanderthal DNA. We discuss how much of a factor genetics plays in our ideas about race, and how much of our ideas about race are socially constructed. Then we transition to talking about the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery at the hands of two white men and what that tells us about the state of race relations in the United States.


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