Who developed the concept of race?

Question

Who developed the concept of race? I am not talking about the human race, but the concept of caucasoid, mongoloid, *******, etc . . . Is it a recent phenomenon?

I specifically mean race as opposed to nationality. Specifically, caucasoid, mongoloid, *******,etc. . .

Answer 1

Read it up for yourself here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasoid,_*******,_Mongoloid,_Australoid,_Capoid#Origin_of_the_terms_in_craniofacial_anthropometry

Answer 2

you have to realize we arent so far along in the history of written words. thus our lack of knowledge of past events that used to be handed down from song or dance has left us in many ways due to empire building, trading which has with lightning rapidity brought industrialization...the age we still dwell in today.
MANY languages and dialects are gone forever. Few marks give us a glimpse back (the pyramids in Egypt) that will not be overwritten.
Undoubtedly the concept of race was a push of science. Or of curious minds eager to catalogue known existence. As it is naturally a keen human interest to note of people from differing cultural background and they are especially noticable if you can see this just by looking at them.
Quite convenient it was then for lords of old time to devide and conquer peoples based on skin color. Soon as differing tribes of people fell under one rule or another it would become keen to the doctors to learn to care for their new tools in human labor.
To say there are not medical differences between men of different dietary and tehitiary backgrounds is asenine and serves only to satiate egos of righteous minded dreamers with thier heads in the sand. Extreme example of off the beaten path human beings would be the pygmies in south America and the Aboriginals of Australlia. They have severely differntly adapted immune systems and metabolisms that have proven the adaptability of humanity over time...just like any other animal.
I would say that this phenomenon is only as recent as the written word...and surely has predated that in the minds and songs of victory in virtually all obscure or highlighted corners of the world.
Often when I am filling out forms and there is a space that says 'race' I always write 'human'. If it is multiple choice I reject the notion. However, if requested to note 'ethnicity' THEN, I may comply....of course depending on what I feel like 'identifying with' that day...maybe I'll flip a coin?

Answer 3

Scientifically, you yourself can develop "strains" or "breeds" of any plant or animal alive. Maybe that happened with people as they scattered over the earth, regardless of where they came from.

The Biblical account has Noah coming out of the Ark with just his wife and his three sons and their wives. He gets drunk (the post-flood world may be a little depressing for awhile) and the sons distinguish themselves by the way they respond to the situation. After awhile (a generation?) the people build the tower of Babel, God doesn't like it and confuses their speech, and they scatter over the earth.

Answer 4

The division of humanity into distinct "races" can be traced as far back as the Ancient Egyptian sacred text the Book of Gates, which identifies four categories that are now conventionally labelled "Egyptians", "Asiatics", "Libyans", and "Nubians". However, such distinctions tended to merge differences defined by features such as skin color, with tribal and national identity.

Answer 5

I forgot who it was, but I think 'race' framed in the context you gave goes back to colonial period when western europe was dividing up the regions by its indigenous features. It obviously pre-dates the nation state sense of race, but I think the terminologies weren't wholly independent of region.

Answer 6

people regarded at one yet another from diverse areas of the international after many had progressed and epidermis lightened by utilising the inability of sunlight in the northern hemisphere and observed that people regarded diverse and that's approximately it. people staring at people, seeing they supply the impact of being diverse and having an aversion to them messing up their kinfolk line.

Answer 7

the ancents period....