There is only one race the human race!!!!!!!!!!!!?

Question

Founding father of anthropology Franz Boas said there is one race the human race.
Why did he say this????
I will choose the person with the best answer and that is the most specific.....Do u agree????? I do>>>>> best answer gets the points....i want your answers in your own words dont copy from the book or internet...Thanks

why is it not true what is your scientific evidience of there being many races...This should be interesting to here!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Franz Boas was not a celebrity he was a college professor...he did taught/ and did research

the skeltal sizes were differentiated by diet, and enviroment not race...

Answer 1

Franz Boaz sounded the death knell for race based studies early in the 20th Century, when he did a few things...

1) Showed the racism that was inherent in race based studies
2) Showed that racism was rampant in race based studies of the day
3) Deconstructed (sort of) the idea of race, and showed how it didn't actually match up with anthropometric evidence of the day anyway.

After he was done with it, the idea of race was pretty much left in the dust by the academic community. People who study human morphological variance do so in defined populations, which may or may not comprise what many people would think of as a "race."

Answer 2

Thats a matter of perspective.
From a biological standpoint, one that I firmly believe in and perhaps Mr. Boas would have also if he were a scientist first and an anthropologist second, we are one species, not necessarily one race. A species is a group of individuals who can successfully reproduce fertile and viable offspring (except in rare cases like the mule, which is a sterile cross between a horse and a donkey). Since humans can all under normal and healthy circumstances reproduce viable and fertile offspring, we qualify as one species. But what makes up a race? Take dogs for instance. Would you say that a St. Bernard and a Jack Russell Terrier are the same race? No, so why would you try to clump the various human races together? Different races isn't a problem from a scientific stand point, but it is from a sociological one. It is a problem because it allows the unenlightened to use the ''us'' versus ''them'' mentality more easily than if we all looked the same.

From an anthropological standpoint however, I can see why Mr. Boas would say we are all one race. We all have the same basic necessities and we are all suffering the same human condition.

Answer 3

Get into forensics sweety not anthropology. I can see why a person would say there is only one race, the human race....and I agree in an anthropologic view.

However on a deeper scientific level there are I believe 7 races. These are genetically different on a skeletal level and some on a molecular level.

Asians have a skin fold by the eye caused by a specific difference is the bones of the skull.

Native americans are the only race with the back of their bicuspids rounded out to the inside as opposed to the tooth being round. You know, our vampire teeth.

Africans have a particular curvature to the femur that allows them to jump higher and run faster.

These are only the three most specific ones I remember off hand. Its why they can find a skeleton and identify the race. Its just science. Through the millenia races have mixed, but they are still identifiable by forensic sciences.

Answer 4

Well I see both sides of that. I am human first and also proud of my culture and history second. If we're going to stop emphasizing the differences so much we should never go back to minorities feeling forced to pretend they're not who they are. We should look at the diversity in a positive way that makes the human race more interesting!

Answer 5

Humans (homo sapiens) are all of the same basic extraction. The _major_ difference between groups of people is dependant on their ancestor's location. Environmental qualities have created different 'equipment' in each so-called race due to the necessity of living in that environment.
Case in point: People whose extraction is from the veldtlands of our equatorial landmasses are dark complected -- extra melanin in the skin to protect the body from the stronger UV at those latitudes.
People whose extraction is from active volcanic areas, i.e., the classic 'Roman' nose;the longer nasal passages developed to help filter the air in that region.

The list goes on to each 'race' of Man. I'll stop here, but you get the point.

Answer 6

There is one race. If you do your research you will find out that there is evidence that all humans carry a certain gene in their DNA that we ALL have that is linked to one woman that lived Thousands upon thousands of years ago. Through adaptaion and other things like that are skin pigments changed and other characteristics did as well. So in a sense there is only ONE race

Answer 7

There is not enough difference between races to classify any race as a separate sub species. There are only groups with similar features. Darker/lighter skin, hair texture, facial features, etc. etc. Everyone is human, the DNA does not vary enough. You can group people as Asians, Black, White, whatever, but this is social and not scientific. It makes as much sense to group people by hair colour, height or any other physical trait.

Answer 8

When I was applying for a visa to live in the United States, I answered the question, Race? with "Human". I got my visa.

Answer 9

Mr. Boas probably said that to gain recognition and to point out that he's not racist.
If I was a celebrity, I would say the same thing.
We each evolved from different living beings.
The truth is that different races came from different places, but it doesn't mean that we should settle our differences with guns.
I'd love to know where my ancestors came from, and where yours came from as well.
Peace

Answer 10

I disagree due to the fact that I remember a vague reference to an article stating that you can determine approximate skin tone due to bone structure. Different races have different bone structures probably due to living conditions and what was needed for survival in that area.