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How many human races exist?

How many human races are there?

  • 1

    Votes: 22 68.8%
  • 3

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • more than 3.

    Votes: 10 31.3%

  • Total voters
    32
It is not cheap. calling race cheap is the reason people are still having problems with race. if you don't understand it, you will be ignorant of it and won't be able to accept it. And like all AA groups tell you, acknowledgement and acceptance are the first steps to a healthy way of curing it.

An unhealthy way of dealing with it is to ignore it, call it a "social construct". The dumbest way to deal with it is to say that there are no races and that there is just 1 race, the human race, instead of correctly identifying it as the human species with different subspecies. But by far the worst way to "cure" the race problem is to cheer for the destruction of the diversity that the the simple fact that humanity has various races. If we would have no races, just 1 race, we would be less than dogs. Dogs have different breeds (races), each with its own unique traits. Well, maybe dogs are bad example because there is no human equivalent to the chiuahua. But rather, humans are more like wolves. There are a great deal of wolf subspecies, each subspecies being different than the other due to the fact that it evolved and grew in a different environment and because of that, the Canidae branch of the animal kingdom is much more interesting.

Cheap in the financial sense to gauge patterns of disease and work toward understanding their biological basis. I suggest you re-read my post, I'm not as far away from you as you think on the matter, but I just see it as a decent tool for biomedical research for lack of others.
 
You mean his skin is black then or his hair?

his skin is black.

in germany actually live about 500.000 black germans, also named afro-germans (but i don´t like this word).

germany has been all the time in his history an country of immigration. the first black people came to germany at the time of the roman empire.

see also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Wilhelm_Amo
 
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No, but you said:

My question is, what traits are unique to different 'races'? I can't think of any.

Hmm, maybe indeed, the word unique is too rashly used there.

The correct way to phrase it is: each race has traits and characteristics either complete or in very high proportions which make each race unique. This I think is more accurate.

Though what I said was pretty true on some level. From cosmetic things like eye color and hair color and hair style. For examples, blacks have that curly hair sort of thing way more native americans or chinesse. Hazel/brown eyes are the most common eye color in the world because all races have it, and some races, only have that and cannot have, as a genetic stereotype, any other eye color. Same for hair.

The deeper things are health related. One example is the disease part because it is an uncontroversial and scientifically acknowledged fact.
 
If you are going to post a qoute have the ....... to print the whole thing. otherwise its just fishing.

Addressing the initial statement addressed the rest of it. :shrug:
 
How many human races are there?

Please clarify what you mean.

There is only one race classified as Homosapien sapien. However, the term race, sub-race would actually be correct, is also used to classify different groups sharing similar or the same physical attributes and genetic inheritance. Under that usage, there are definitely more than 3.

Amongst people with Black/dark brown skin pigmentation there are Sub-Saharan Africans, and even there there are different characteristics between geographical locations, there are the Australian Aboriginal Tribes, Tribes from differing south pacific islands and even jungle peoples of the Amazon.

I don't think there are very many who actually know just how many sub-races of the human race exist. I know I don't.
 
Just using your words, there are lots of different races, there is only one species.
 
No, but you said:

My question is, what traits are unique to different 'races'? I can't think of any.

See, to define race you can't use any single characteristic, it's a group classification. To define someone's race you need a collection of physical characteristics combined with knowledge of geographic origin.

Also, and people need to remember this, the concept of race is inapplicable to individuals, as we're talking the likelihood of certain characteristics, and statistics don't apply well to individuals. A Scottish person (defined as someone who's from Scotland, and whose lineage is Scottish long enough for the geography and climate to effect phenotypical expression), has a 13% chance of having red hair, but they're either red-haired or not.
 
Please clarify what you mean.
I purposefully left it open ended to get answers based on the individuals concept of what race actually means in regards to humans.
There is only one race classified as Homosapien sapien. However, the term race, sub-race would actually be correct, is also used to classify different groups sharing similar or the same physical attributes and genetic inheritance. Under that usage, there are definitely more than 3.Amongst people with Black/dark brown skin pigmentation there are Sub-Saharan Africans, and even there there are different characteristics between geographical locations, there are the Australian Aboriginal Tribes, Tribes from differing south pacific islands and even jungle peoples of the Amazon. I don't think there are very many who actually know just how many sub-races of the human race exist. I know I don't.
How do you differentiate between these so-called sub-races?
 
Three or more recognized as a cultural construct and through genetics.
 
Race is just a dumbed down word for phenotype. Just like every other organism in existence, we are subject to mutations due to climate, diet, geographic location, breeding habits, social habitat, and a multitude of other factors. Because of this there are a great many races that will continue to split and change as the species progresses.
 
I purposefully left it open ended to get answers based on the individuals concept of what race actually means in regards to humans. How do you differentiate between these so-called sub-races?

Ok, I screwed up, should of used the term species and race instead of what I used.

How do I differentiate? To quote myself from the post you quoted "different groups sharing similar or the same physical attributes and genetic inheritance."
 
For the record, race is a social construct with biological foundations so there are as many races as people want there to be.
 
his skin is black.

in germany actually live about 500.000 black germans, also named afro-germans (but i don´t like this word).

germany has been all the time in his history an country of immigration. the first black people came to germany at the time of the roman empire.

see also:
Anton Wilhelm Amo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Neo Nazzies are quite happy with that fact than I presume.

You are new here so I'd suggest you do not use Wikipedia as a source. There are many other sources out there and Wiki has different priorities when offering information.

I enjoy Youtube more.
 
On the more controversial mere 3 races.
These are now not politically or technically correct but still quite Real.

NOVA | Does Race Exist?
with two Differing opinions. I post the latter from someone who necessarily/Practically/Forensically deals with race.
George Gill, the Hands-on proponent:

Slightly Over Half of all biological/physical anthropologists today believe in the Traditional view that human Races are biologically valid and Real. Furthermore, they tend to see nothing wrong in defining and naming the different populations of Homo sapiens. The Other Half of the biological anthropology community believes either that the traditional racial categories for humankind are arbitrary and meaningless, or that at a minimum there are better ways to look at human variation than through the "racial lens."
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Bones don't lie
First, I have found that forensic anthropologists attain a high degree of accuracy in determining geographic racial affinities (white, black, American Indian, etc.) by utilizing both new and traditional methods of bone analysis. Many well-conducted studies were reported in the late 1980s and 1990s that test methods objectively for percentage of correct placement. Numerous individual methods involving midfacial measurements, femur traits, and so on are over 80% accurate alone, and in combination produce very high levels of accuracy. No forensic anthropologist would make a racial assessment based upon just one of these methods, but in combination they can make very reliable assessments, just as in determining sex or age. In other words, multiple criteria are the key to success in all of these determinations..... My students ask, "How can this be? They can Identify skeletons as to Racial origins but do not believe in Race!" My answer is that we can often function within systems that we do not believe in.

"The idea that Race is 'only skin deep' is simply not true."

Deeper than the skin
[.......]The "reality of race" therefore depends more on the definition of reality than on the definition of race. If we choose to accept the system of racial taxonomy that physical anthropologists have traditionally established—major races: black, white, etc.—then one can classify human skeletons within it just as well as one can living humans. The bony traits of the nose, mouth, femur, and cranium are just as revealing to a good osteologist as skin color, hair form, nose form, and lips to the perceptive observer of living humanity. I have been able to prove to myself over the years, in actual Legal cases, that I am more accurate at assessing Race from skeletal remains than from Looking at living people standing before me.

Seeing both sides
Where I stand today in the "great race debate" after a decade and a half of pertinent skeletal research is clearly more on the side of the reality of race than on the "race denial" side. ... Morphological characteristics, however, like skin color, hair form, bone traits, eyes, and lips tend to follow geographic boundaries coinciding often with climatic zones. This is not surprising since the selective forces of climate are probably the primary forces of nature that have Shaped human Races with regard not only to Skin color and Hair form but also the Underlying Bony structures of the Nose, Cheekbones, etc.."

On political correctness

Those who believe that the concept of race is valid do not discredit the notion of clines, however. Yet those with the Clinical perspective who believe that races are not real do try to discredit the evidence of skeletal biology. Why this bias from the "race denial" faction? This bias seems to stem largely from socio-political motivation and Not science at all. For the time being at least, the people in "race denial" are in "reality denial" as well. Their motivation (a positive one) is that they have come to believe that the race concept is socially dangerous. In other words, they have convinced themselves that race promotes racism. Therefore, they have pushed the Politically Correct Agenda that human races are not biologically real, no matter what the Evidence.

How can we combat racism if no one is willing to talk about race?"
Consequently, at the beginning of the 21st century, even as a majority of biological anthropologists favor the reality of the race perspective, not one introductory textbook of physical anthropology even presents that perspective as a possibility. In a case as flagrant as this, we are not dealing with science but rather with blatant, politically motivated censorship. But, you may ask, are the politically correct actually correct? Is there a relationship between thinking about race and racism?
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I have read there are 4 distinct races--white, black, everybody else but the others, and some distinctive very small race somewhere around Israel but I forget the details of how that last one was determined.
 
Despite the fact the old 3 are still useful...
(see my last at top of this page)
Most genetic researchers now use larger groups of 9 to 11.
see, ie, Cavalli-Sforza.

In fact, send your Blood and $100+ into National Geographic's Genographic Project, and they, sight unseen, will tell you what Percent of Each 'Indigenous population'/RACE (11) you are.

and see my Sig of course.
 
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How many human races are there?

Only one, homo sapiens.
Homo Neanderthalensis, homo habilis, and the Denosavans died out millennia ago, and homo sapiens has only been around a couple of hundred thousand years, not time to have speciated.

We're all the same species, therefore all the same race.

Perhaps in another million years or so, we will have evolved into different species, if we survive that long that is.
 
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