Now i do not mean Hispanic, Spanish, English, German. I mean scientifically is there three categories? Caucasian, African, & Asian. I am not being racist or anything, and I realize their are a lot of sub cultures and such, but what are the main categories that they start with, are those the correct one?
2007-06-17 10:44:01 · 13 answers · asked by Legend Gates Shotokan Karate 7 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Ye rsantiago800 you are correct and you and the one below show that difference for she understood the question, you did not. I am talking scientific classification not intellectual. an Intellectual would know this as the person after you did thankfully
2007-06-17 11:02:10 · update #1
Depending on the study being conducted, there are potentially very, very many scientific classifications of human beings. These can be ethnic classifications, classifications by a particular trait or set of traits, by geographic origin, ancestry, or lots of other things. It's not that science, anthropology in particular, studies people and then jams the results into a preexisting classification system. That's patently unscientific. Results of a study may justify a particular classification system, which is something else.
A classification system should exist because it is bolstered by the available evidence, by things that can actually be studied scientifically. The racial system, which consists partially of the *******, mogoloid, caucasoid categories, is simply not bolstered by the available evidence. Nothing fits consistently (partially because the categories themselves were constructed with a high degree of bias many years ago). You don't see scientific studies done like that, because studies like that can't be done scientifically.
2007-06-17 13:34:28 · answer #1 · answered by The Ry-Guy 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you call correct. Correct by X entity specifications of what is correct or by Y entity specification of correct? I think many agree that If you want a classification by the most important criteria of human classification you get this 2: alive and dieing. So human existence is a permanent drama, unless solving it's most stringent problem: death.
2007-06-17 11:42:44 · answer #2 · answered by Even Haazer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ry-Guy said it all.
Races have been scientifically disputed. People should get educated and get over the fact that skincolor just isn't a viable scientific criterion in classifying humans.
Haplotypes, populations, variations are the most abstract terms used in classifying and they differ from project to project as they depend on the design of the research, the criteria considered and the people involved in it.
Bottomline: there just isn't one, two or three categories of humans based on any criterion that would make sense universally.
2007-06-18 00:16:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This can be determined by driving to and from work. Nice people let people into traffic. They also give the wave if they are fortunate enought to be allowed into traffic by a like minded person. Ther others are the no signal giving, speed up so you can't get over because they see your blinker on jerks. So I guess what I'm saying is good and bad, and to find out who is who, watch them drive.
2007-06-17 16:16:01 · answer #4 · answered by Art Vandelay 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No expert here, but I believe the correct classification for races are Mongoloid, *******, and Caucasoid. But I'm pretty sure these terms and classifications aren't widely used any longer.
2007-06-17 10:57:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
There were a few anthropologists that made thorough classifications
of all of the races of the world.
Go to http://www.snpa.nordish.net for more information.
One of the anthropologists is/was named Glowatzki. I don't
remember the names of the others off-hand.
2007-06-17 11:16:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
races aside there is one species homo sapien . anyone else was probably deported from another planet as a extraterrestrial lunatic to live among us as the earth is an ideal insane asylum for other species . ha ha sip
2007-06-17 17:16:38 · answer #7 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Caucasoid, Mongoloid (which is actually a rather racist term, but includes Asians and people classified as "Native Americans") and *******. They are still in use in physical anthropology.
2007-06-17 11:05:41 · answer #8 · answered by Katie D 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
There is Caucasion, *******, Mongoloid, . There are many classifications besides like Pygmy ******* is in a different class from regular *******.
2007-06-17 17:21:03 · answer #9 · answered by Pen 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you mean "races", these systems have been discredited, and I think they have switched to haplogroups.
For races, there are multiple answers to your question. Try:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28historical_definitions%29
2007-06-17 11:06:06 · answer #10 · answered by Citizen for President 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋