how many different kinds of people are there?

Question

like with every other animal, birds, dogs, horses, fish etc. There are different types of human, its NOT a bad thing so any one that wants to moan that i'm being racist go copulate on your own. I was just wondering if anyone had ever done a study on it, if they have, how many different types of us are there?

getsever... if what you say is true and there are no (even slight) biological differences then why don't i look like an Australian aboriganee?

Jude - i was with you till the "only race that matters is the human race" comment, all life on the planet is interconnected, we can't survive alone.

Answer 1

I think I understand your question. You are asking about the different human races. According to anthropologists, there are 4:

Mongoloid (people of Asian descent - this includes the Native American peoples as well)
Caucasoid (people of European descent - this includes Middle Eastern peoples as well)
Negroid (people of African descent)
Australoid (people of Australian descent - the native Aborigines)

I hope that answers your question.

Answer 2

Well, given that human population intermingling and interbreeding has been both enthusiastic and constant for a good, long time, I'd have to say that there is really only one (really variable) kind of people. It's as if the genotype description could be measured and plotted along a line; each person would be placed at a unique spot on that line, close to somebody else, but different from everybody except an identical twin. You could wedge in separations between 'groups', but they would be almost artificial in the sense that there is so much overlap and intra-'group' diversity that there would always be some members of a 'group' that fit just as well in some other 'group'. And that's just genetic variation - throw in cultural variation (and for humans, culture is a perfectly viable grouping category, and probably as important as genes) and you have a huge moosh. Plot "kind of people" as a big scatter plot, and it would look something like a huge mass of dots in a cloud, with some tighter clusters that could represent regions, or towns, or neighborhoods, or altitude, or latitude, or religious groups like the Amish, or whatever. It's really kind of pointless to try to create categories of people, unless you're willing to create several billion categories, each comprised of one or two individuals.

Answer 3

No, I don't think your question rates you as a racist. It is truly ashamed, that is a culture like America, which is supposed to be open to any opinion and free expression, you have to exercise extreme caution when talking about race.

Well you could argue that each of us is different. There are three basic humanoid types. There are several ways you will find them classified, African, European and Asian. Research has found that there is more similarity than differences.

Biological differences among races
http://record.wustl.edu/archive/1998/10-15-98/articles/races.html

The Molecularization of Race:
Institutionalizing Human Difference
in Pharmacogenetics Practice
http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=types+race+of+humans&fr=yie7c&u=www.lff.org/MolecularizationOfRace.pdf&w=types+type+race+racing+humans+human&d=OIkgKLXiP15M&icp=1&.intl=us

Answer 4

A human being is a mammal. Mammals are animals.

There are many different races, if that's what you mean, but the differences are superficial only, at a genetic level every human has the same DNA.

However there have been studies on different racial characteristics, that is normally called anthropology. It is a study of the cultural, language, and spiritual differences of people in different parts of the world. If this is what you mean, then there are loads of resources on the internet about this.

But just remember, the only race that really matters is the Human Race.

Answer 5

There is only one kind of human. We are all descended from Adam and Eve, and subsequently from Noah and his wife.

Natural Selection results in different varieties - such as black skin, curly hair, olive shaped eyes, etc, but there is very little genetic difference between any humans.

The same is true of, say, dogs. There are dozens of varieties descended from the original dog kind - we have even designated many different dog species. But they are all related.

The definition of a species is somewhat arbitrary - sometimes defined by being able to breed, but this is not exact. For example lions and tigers are different species, yet can interbreed. So they are clearly descended from a common big cat kind.

Note that this is the opposite of molecules-to-man evolution.
Lions and tigers have *less* genetic information than their ancestors, and have become more specialised.

This is very marked in dogs, where certain traits are artificially bred for. You could probably breed a variety a bit like a poodle from wild dogs, but you'll never breed much other than a poodle from a poodle, since they have a highly selected (and weak) gene pool.

There is an excellent article here
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3261/
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3264/
which explains in detail.

Some people think there must be different ‘races’ of people because there appear to be major differences between various groups, such as skin color and eye shape.
No Big Difference

The truth, though, is that these so-called ‘racial characteristics’ are only minor variations among the people groups. Scientists have found that if one were to take any two people from anywhere in the world, the basic genetic differences between these two people would typically be around 0.2 percent—even if they came from the same people group. But, these so-called ‘racial’ characteristics that many think are major differences (skin color, eye shape, etc.) account for only 6 percent of this 0.2 percent variation, which amounts to a mere 0.012 percent difference genetically.

In other words, the so-called ‘racial’ differences are absolutely trivial. Overall, there is more variation within any group than there is between one group and another. If a white person is looking for a tissue match for an organ transplant, for instance, the best match may come from a black person, and vice versa. The ABC News science page stated, ‘What the facts show is that there are differences among us, but they stem from culture, not race.’

The only reason many people think these differences are major is because they’ve been brought up in a culture that has taught them to see the differences this way.

Answer 6

I think I understand what you are asking. There can be several types of cancer that can arise from the same location and some are more dangerous than others. For example there are about a dozen different breast cancers a mucinous carcinoma is not as dangerous as a ductal carcinoma and a ductal carcinoma is not as dangerous as an inflammatory carcinoma, yet all 3 are breast cancers.

Answer 7

I don't think we can figure that out as "it takes ALL kinds to make a world." For example, in South America, we keep discovering new kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and fish. They've even came across Indian tribes that have long been hidden. I think its like diseases, we discover one, then find another.The world, like the universe is ever evolving and its secrets continuously revealed.

Answer 8

Racial categories have been shown to be political constructs rather than biological entities...so I guess you are talking about gender here...there are 2 types with some genetic anomalies of course. If you define a different person as someone with a different brain than there as many different people as there are people - since the brain is a function of genes and environment then no 2 brains are alike...

Answer 9

At the present time there is only ONE species of intelligent, indiginous hominid populating our planet: Homo Sapiens. Yes literally thousands of scientists, geneticists, etc. have studied this. The recently completed Human Genome Project confirmed this fact. We are all of one species and one race: The Human Race.

Answer 10

well i was just going to say that every one is different and that is what makes us different from other people ya know? and i dont think ur question was racest and not all americans think like that thank you very much