Parent Category: Ethnicity

Race, also known as a man, is to have some common genetic characteristics of populations in the physical form. The detailed division of the concept of "race" and race has quite a controversial issue, vary in different times and different cultures, the concept of race is also involved in other areas such as social identity and nationalism .

Race, also known as a man, is to have some common genetic characteristics of populations in the physical form. The detailed division of the concept of "race" and race has quite a controversial issue, vary in different times and different cultures, the concept of race is also involved in other areas such as social identity and nationalism . In the 20th century, scientists generally believe that mankind is divided into several essentialist mode split (divided) that the essential characteristics of race, such as the Negro race (black people), Mongoloid (yellow) Caucasian (white). However, since the 1940s, evolutionist scientists began to phase out this theory. In addition, the race is a long time to understand the point of view of scientific classification, is about to race as a classification level, such as equating race with subspecies; but since the 1960s, population genetics studies of emerging data and model also some scientists began to question this understanding, and turned to the group, feature lines, and other concepts to study the difference of the human internal. Since the 1990s, the emerging data and models in genomics and Cladistic Study the scientific community a new understanding of human origins, some scientists have turned to descent rather than the characteristics to define the distinctions, and that the The race should be understood as fuzzy sets, statistical groups, or broad family. Into the chemical and sociologists believe that based on the results of the biological research in recent years, the definition of the human race, the lack of rigor and accuracy of scientific classification; the definition of "race" is not accurate, arbitrary convention, with the difference in cultural perspective, the race should be regarded as a social construct. But other scientists believe that changing the motivation of this view, for political reasons rather than scientific.