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Brian M asked in Social ScienceAnthropology · 1 decade ago

How many different Anthropological Races are there within the Human race?

Please identify them in your answer.

Update:

The term race distinguishes one population of humans (or non-humans) from another. Many regard race as a social construct. The most widely used human racial categories are based on visible traits (especially skin color and facial features), genes, and self-identification. Conceptions of race, as well as specific racial groupings, vary by culture and over time and are often controversial, for scientific reasons as well as their impact on social identity and identity politics.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Caucasoid, Negroid and Mongoloid at this time.

    some anthropologist today hold that the Native American and the Australian Aborigine are separate races.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

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  • Goethe
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    One.

    In the past, physical anthropologists spent years defining sub-races within three major categories: Caucasoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid.

    When it became evident that physical traits, like skin color or eye form, were related more to geography than anything else, they switched to "geographical races:" European, Asian, African, and then "local races:" Meditterian European, Alpine European, etc., and finally "microraces:" polynesian, melanesian, etc.

    But, once the humane genome code was cracked, it became abundantly clear that there is only one race: human.

  • 1 decade ago

    The concept of "race" within the human species has been totally discredited by modern evolutionary biology.

  • 1 decade ago

    This is too much like you're trying to get other people to do your homework. Anyway, I can give you only the major races, subraces & subspecies. To give you all the subspecies would take up far too much room.

    Capoid or Khoisand Subspecies of Southern Africa, Congoid Suspecies of sub-Saharan Africa, Caucasoid or Europid Subspecies, Dinaric race, Alpine race, Ladogan race, Nordish or Northern European race, Armenid race, Turanid race, Australoid Subspecies and Mogoloid Subspecies. That's 5. If I could've listed all the subspecies within each classification, you'd see everyone in the entire world.

    You could've found this yourself.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Three. Caucasoid, Negroid and Mongoloid.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Unless you're a racist, who cares? We're all human beings, whether you think we're all equal or not.

  • 1 decade ago

    three-I think

    mongoloid- chinese, japanese etc

    eurasian-english etc

    negroid-african, aboriginal

    everybody else is a mixture of these

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    what are you? a teacher?

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    do your research

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