Scientifically speaking, are different races of humans considered different varieties?

Question

No matter our race, we're all homosapiens (sp?). But is our race classified as our "variety?" If so, what are the scientific names of the different races/varieties?

Answer 1

No.
In Linnean taxonomy, "variety" is only applicable to botany, and phylogenetic taxonomy has no counterpart to "variety".

From a scientific point of view, we are homo sapiens sapiens, which means we are in the subspecies "sapiens" of the species "homo sapiens". The only other subspecies of homo sapiens is homo sapiens idaltu (lived about 160,000 years ago, first found in 2003).

Race / ehtnicity do not qualify as a seperate subspecies in the Linnean taxonomy.

Answer 2

In the classic texts, there are only three races of man: caucasion (white), ***** (black) and mongoloid (asian). Today, people confuse race with ethnicity. If you say something bad against an hispnaic or Muslim, for example, you might be called a racist. But one is ethnic and the other religious. These are culture things that create variety, but not race.

Race is a biological genetic difference. The asians have a fold at the inner eye, typical of the mongoloid race. That is why people with Down's Syndrome were originally called mongoloids, because they had this characteristic in their eyes.

Our species is homo sapien. Above species are things like order (primates), family, class (mammal) and so on. If you look at the species man, he comes in 3 races, and each race has it's own varieties. There are different Asians (polynesians, chinese, philippinos, etc) as there are among the other races. It's kind of like dogs. All dogs are the same species, no races, but different varieties.

Members of the same species can interbreed. That is how we get different varieties. Not new races, because the original race characteristics are diluted, just a variety. Black and white create mulatto, but this is not a new race.

Answer 3

there are no such classifications as far as i know.

the classification stops at the species level (and as each race can successfully reproduce with the others and produce viable offspring, they are the same species).

plus, because it is somewhat difficult to find a significant number of people with only one racial heritage (eurasia and africa are quite close, and therefore ppl there would be prone to interbreed; natives of the americas and australia have relatively recent ancestral links to other races), it is hard to pinpoint specific characteristics exclusive to each gender (which i believe is inherent in describing a subspecies).

also, according to wikipedia, in subspecies "The flow of genetic material between the group and other groups is small and can be expected to remain so because even if the two groups were to be placed together they would not interbreed to any great extent."

there are ethnic names for different races/cultures, but they are by no means scientific.

Answer 4

The concept of race is not at all scientific. There is no genetic significance to the word race. In fact, there is more genetic variation (around 95% of known variation) found among members of a population, than there is between population groups (5% of known variation).

Answer 5

i think in animals the proper term would be sub-species as variety refers to plants, but I've often wondered the same thing, some races of people tend to be more susceptible or resistant to certain dideases which is shown in the colonisation of the americas. i did a search and found an interesting article on the matter

Answer 6

no person knows, yet its extra interesting this form. clarify what charm is and that could clarify it. working example its in all probability intuition to love something or no longer....all of us seem to love particularly some issues yet no person is sweet or incorrect. Human dermis coloration does not rely. There are attractive human beings in all races, so what? consistent with probability if the worldwide final long adequate all of us often is the comparable coloration (some coloration of brown).

Answer 7

I don't think it's politically correct to classify the races, but you are correct - each one should have it's own name.

After all, there are genetic differences that allow forensic pathologists to do it all the time.

Answer 8

...if my memory and teachings are correct there are only 3 races:
...*******, Caucasian, and Mongoloid...
...and every ethnicity falls into 1 of those 3 races...
...ex: Native Americans fall under Mongoloid...so in actuality what you are speaking of already exist...if I understand you...