Significant differences in views on race (once a core anthropological concept) occur between scientists from different countries. In light of the ongoing race debate, we present the concept's current status in Europe. On three occasions in 2002-03, we surveyed European anthropologists' opinions toward the biological race concept. The participants were asked whether they agreed that there are biological races within the species Homo sapiens. A dependence was sought between the type of response and several factors. Three of these factors-country of academic education, discipline, and age-were found to be significant in differentiating the replies. Respondents educated in Western Europe, physical anthropologists, and middle-aged persons reject race more frequently than respondents educated in Eastern Europe, people in other branches of science, and those from both younger and older generations. The survey shows that the views of anthropologists on race are sociopolitically (ideologically) influenced and highly dependent on education.

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His research interests are methods of investigation of prehistoric populations (especially from cremated human bones), mechanisms of inter-and intragroup differentiation, and the paleobiology of pre-and early Slavonic groups. Among his publications are "Problems of the Morphological Differentiation and the Determination of Interdependence of Traits in the Structure of Vertebrae in Man" (Glasnik Antropoloskog Drustva Jugoslavije 10:13-20); "Polish Methods and Results of Investigations of Cremated Bones from Prehistoric Cemeteries" (Glasnik Antropoloskog Drustva Jugoslavije 12:23-34); and "Natural Selection and Microevolutionary Changes in Non-Metrical Traits in Medieval Populations from Poland" (Studies in Physical Anthropology [Wroclaw], in press). JAN STRZALKO is Docent in Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology of A. Mickiewicz University. Born in 1943, he received his doctorate in natural sciences, anthropology, in 1968 and his habilitation in 1974 from that university. His research interests are the morphogenesis and evolution of the human skeleton, formal and populational problems in somatotypology, and the methodological aspects of biocultural evolution. His publications include "Role of the Temporal Muscle in the Morphogenesis of the Skeleton of the Face" (Przeglhd Antropologiczny 36:3-24); with A. Malinowski, "The Muscles of Mastication and Cranial Proportions in Primates" (Folia Morphologica [Warszawa] 31:207-13); and "Variability of Human Internal Organ Size and Their Connection with Body-Build Type" (Przeglad Antropologiczny 40:217-49). The three authors have worked together since 1974 in a research program on the biological history of human populations, the details of which are spelled out in "Anthropology and Biological Changes of Human Populations," by Strzalko, Piontek, and Henneberg (Przeglad Antropologiczny 41:159-72).. Other joint products of the program include "Theoretico-Methodological Presuppositions and Possibilities of Investigating the Biology of Prehistoric Populations in Central Europe," by Henneberg and others (Przeglad Archeologiczny 23:187-231), Wstep do ekologii populacyjnej czlowieka (Introduction to Human Populational Biology), by Strzalko, Henneberg, and Piontek (Poznant, 1976), and "Durability of Living Systems: Origin and Role of Culture" (Poznaniskie Studia z Filozofli Nauki, in press). The present paper, submitted in final form 10 v 77, was sent for comment to 50 scholars. The responses are printed below and nre fnollwe1l bv a renlv hv the aiithnrcs 'This work is part of Section IA of the Biological History of Human Populations Research Programme.

On the basis of face photographs, a team of 50 male judges assessed the physical attractiveness of 64 young women. The consistency of the opinions of the judges was investigated in reference to the attractiveness of the persons being assessed, the relationship of the assessments with morphological facial features – both of the persons being assessed and the observers, and the mutual similarity of the persons defined by the given judge as attractive. The discussion refers to sociobiological problems.

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