Can certain races of humans go extinct like animal species?

Question

Darwin teaches survival of the fittest, only the strong will survive, intelligence prevails. Can it be the exact case for human beings?

Answer 1

Since you're posting this in the anthropology section I'll answer this from an anthropologist's point of view...

There is no such thing as race when it comes to human biology.  Race is a cultural concept, not a biological one, therefore Darwinian evolution and extinction cannot happen to "races."

Answer 2

No, the Dems would never let nature take it's course, they save everything....

Answer 3

There's no such thing as race, we are all one species.

http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/racepp.htm  (AAA statement on "race")

Uh, you don't quite understand Darwin accurately. (What survives are living beings best suited to their environments, not "only the strong" or "intellignce.") And we've learned some things since his time. (For instance, there have been events that led to mass extinctions, which had nothing to do with "fittest.")

Going back to the notion of race, since all humans can interbreed with each other (we're all the same species), and we actually do so fairly often, there's no such thing as a group "going extinct" in the sense you mean.

Answer 4

Human beings, in a biological sense are a single species, Homo sapien sapien. All species are subject to the same environmental pressures. Theoretically, our species could go extinct.

Answer 5

I wish I had the link, but yes there has been at least 200 different types of humans in the past 50,000 years. Check National Geographic.com

Answer 6

It seems like stupid people are breeding much faster than smart ones these days

Answer 7

ok what you are talking about is Social Darwinism. which was an attempted to prove that certain races were stronger then others and that why the was inequality among people from different races. Later social Darwinism was proved to be wrong. It is wrong, because racism and discrimation is the reason for inequality. Sterotypes are not true and therefore, disproves Social Darwinism.

Good question!

Answer 8

There is very little difference between the "races" in human beings.  One does not have a distinct advantage over others. And because humans can readily interbreed, there is no such thing as a pure race.

Answer 9

Well, if people went around killing all one type of race and got every single one.. but it would be very unlikley unless something like that happened.

Answer 10

Soon everyone will be Asian.

Answer 11

Certain races? Well, there have been 6 or 7 different species of man so far. We are Homo Sapien, thats 1, where are the other 5 or 6?? Yes they can go exstinct. The Cro-Magnum man is gone. Some say the disappeared without a trace, so to speak. Look at homo habilius or homo erectus, they are gone. Unless you beleive in evolution then none of them are gone cause we are them. But I dont believe that... I didn't come from a monkey!!! Homo Africanus is gone.. No its not the modern african either they are sapien. So I guess they can!

Answer 12

Sure; they already have.  Neanderthal; and several other early species of "human" went extinct long ago.

Answer 13

intermarriages are becoming more common these days have you heard of Multiculturalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicultur...

Answer 14

It is possible for the human race as a whole to go extinct someday, but not for separate races themselves to go extinct. Race is just skin color, not an actual subspecies, therefore it is no more likely for any given race of human to go extinct than it would be for any given color of dog or cat.

Answer 15

Well, I don't know about certain races but I do know that true Red Heads are disapearing.

Answer 16

there was a race that got extinct in russia