Why did many different races exist?

Question

I mean we all could be only one race and racism wouldn't exist, don't you think? Well..i don't know

Answer 1

From what I have seen and read, mans development is based on everal different factors. The biggest one being comprehensive thought. Those who are the predecessors of modern man were in two distinct groups. The first lived on the ice shelf where seasons took place but came and left much more dramatically than today. The other group are those who lived below the ice belt, along the Indus, Tigris, Euphrates, and Nile river valleys. The latter group is the one that survived and develpoed along the commonly known lines. The scientific figure I saw was at one time as many as three million of these ancestors were here, but with war, famine, and disease there may have only been as many as two thousand to have survived.
Which brings us to race. Those in the more northerly climates would have had not needed as much skin pigmentation as those in the southern regions. Therefore we also learnd to use our brains differently, developed other, distinct characteristics such as a larger, flatter nose to assist with cooling the body down in the hotter climes. Or we were shorter and of more stamina to deal with the colder, more mountainous regions of the north lands.

Answer 2

Because for hundreds of thousands of years, people where regionalized and developed similar traits due to genetics, (apples not falling far from trees), or environmental adaptation, (dark skin in Africans provides protection from folate destruction by ultraviolet light). True, if everyone was the same race, there would not be an instinct to condemn an entire race just because there is a negative tendency within that race, however, you would still be left with religeous extremists, (Sunni muslims blowing up Shiite muslims). Probably over the next thousand or so years, races will assimilate & eventually blend together, so just hang in there for a few millenia.

Answer 3

Then things would be boring wouldn't they?

But seriously, many people who live around or on the equator are darker skinned so that they can withstand the harshness of the sun coupled with the heat. As well, many lighter skinned people often live in colder places, where the sun is not prominent. Thus, not developing pigment as much.

Answer 4

We all are the same race.

Generally people used to say that there were 5 or 6 races and the austrailian aborigne often was 6 or 7th one.

Answer 5

If people would stop seeing "race" in the same light as "species", then you wouldn't have to ask this question.

Answer 6

The world would be a boring place if we were all the same. God had some style!

Answer 7

there is only one race of people and thats me, cuz i dont care about nobody but me.

Answer 8

yeah youre right but then the world would be boring...