The Meaning and Consequences of Morphological Variation

1 This paper was presented at the session “Exploring the Nature of Human Biological Diversity: Myth v. Reality” at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) 2003 Annual Meeting on November 21, 2003 in Chicago, Illinois. The session was sponsored by the AAA Understanding Race and Human Variation project, organized by AAA’s Society for Medical Anthropology and Committee on Minority Affairs, and funded by the Ford Foundation. The Understanding Race and Human Variation project is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation. This paper represents the views of the author and not the AAA Understanding Race and Human Variation project.