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Originally Posted by The_FD
Hi there 
race has a scientifical definition moslty based on genes numeration and identification. And it has been prooved a while ago that there is no different human races.
Which is different from dogs for exemple where there are races.
Every human on earth belong to the same race
(PS if you have a couple question concerning the scientifical definition of race i will be glad to answer you  ) |
To those who are reading this: don't be fooled by these assertive explanations.
Race does not have one scientific definition and its acception varies a lot.
It has a sociological content (the one that would be used here and there most of the time). Thus, human beings are classified in groups in terms of predominence of certain indices like the skin colour, the hair type, the cephalic index and so on. In turn, this distinction called phenometical (physical characteristics of an organism) is broken down into subdivisions called ethnies (people are then classified on cultural differences). This is, simplified, how anthropologists distinguish human beings.
It is much more complicated that this as one can see in Wikipedia because even scientists are split upon the matter. For example:
A 1985 survey (Lieberman et al. 1992) asked 1,200 scientists how many disagree with the following proposition: "There are biological races in the species Homo sapiens." The responses were:
* biologists 16%
* developmental psychologists 36%
* physical anthropologists 41%
* cultural anthropologists 53%
Speak to an English person about "dog races" and he would frown at you! Because race is a political or sociological concept it doesn't mean anything applied to dogs. The equivallent of "race" for dogs is "breed", especially because it's a human creation.
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