Are all the present human races are descendents of Homo Sapiens?
2007-07-04 04:38:58 · 11 answers · asked by Rebecca 1 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
All Human populations are Homo sapiens. Here are some links that show our Phylogeny (evolutionary tree) and you'll see that for now Homo sapiens is the end of the line. In other words that is what we all are!
http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/images/bigtree2.GIF
http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/McGrawHill/Encyclopedia/images/CE270300FG0010.gif
http://www.rogers.k12.ar.us/users/ehutches/humanphylogeny.jpg
http://www.archeologia.com/~pantalica/atree.jpg
http://www.accuracyingenesis.com/hhtree.gif
As you can see the route to getting to us, and the timings of each evolutionary change can differ based on who is hypothesizing our route from the archaeological/DNA evidence. But there are also some similarities as evidence continually makes the picture more clear. The fact that we are all Homo sapiens is one of the few true constants between diagrams!
2007-07-04 05:02:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
We are Homo Sapiens. We are descendants of the Hominids. Additionally, we all came out of Africa.
Actually, race is an artificially constructed category, formalized through colonization. Race served as a justification of the myth that the colonists were Superior.
It has unfortunate repercussions to this day throughout world systems including modern medicine.
I included one link from the American Anthropologists Association. There are so many others.
If you choose to explore this further, you might look into physical or biological anthropology.
The fact that some people developed different characteristics to adapt to various environments has been incorrectly conceived as race.
2007-07-05 03:39:40 · answer #2 · answered by Debra H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Descendants of Homo sapiens? I believe modern humans *are* Homo sapiens, and yes, all of us.
2007-07-04 11:53:16 · answer #3 · answered by JON 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All current humans are Homo sapiens sapiens.
2007-07-05 08:45:52 · answer #4 · answered by darciecal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummm ... we aren't "descendants" of Homo sapiens. We ARE Homo sapiens. All of us. The concept of human "races" is biologically flawed.
2007-07-04 06:17:55 · answer #5 · answered by stormsinger1 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, humans have many races from which Homo Sapiens represents just one of them. I like to entertain an idea that humans were already living here in there present or even a more evolved form when Homo sapiens came to being.
2007-07-04 05:23:26 · answer #6 · answered by IggySpirit 6 · 0⤊ 5⤋
There's no such thing as race. No one with any brain would think that all members of any geographical or linguistic group were identically wise or unwise. There are wise people and idiots in every geographic and linguistic group; in every culture.
2016-05-18 00:09:25 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Accept for the Basque...and my ex.
2007-07-04 18:44:27 · answer #8 · answered by Yeti 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
barely...
2007-07-05 08:03:37 · answer #9 · answered by winton_holt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am, are you?
2007-07-04 06:08:40 · answer #10 · answered by flyingdove 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋