How many races of people are there and what traits are specific to each one?

Question

biologically speaking are we considered seperate races at all? i am truly curious because i've heard different things

Answer 1

There are considered to be 3 main races (Mongoloid, ******* and Caucasian)...

Answer 2

All humans now existing on Earth belong to just one species, Homo sapiens sapiens or "Modern" Man. despite vast variations in morphological and physiological features, they are all inter-breedable. Current scientific belief is that all the billions of humans existing today are descended, in the female line, from one unique female, known as the "Mitochondrial Eve", who lived in Africa about 300,000 years ago, and had a daughter who had a daughter, and so on, ever since.

Morphological and physiological variations are accounted for by mutations, caused by several reasons, and the survival of the fittest in given environmental niches. Humans are so adaptable in these characteristics that they are found in every possible envioronment. A phenomenon called "Mendellian Drift" accounts for local concentrations of certain traits, that used to be confused as "racial" in the past.

A famous world wide survey and gene mapping of humans had been completed some years ago. No evidence was found that any particular morphological trait uniquely corresponded with mental or intellectual capacity.  All humans share some genetical features with many others, often distributed over wide geographical spaces.

Answer 3

There is no such thing as human races. Apes have races and dogs also but there is only one human race: the homo sapiens sapiens.

Other human races did exist but they have all died out. Most famous is the homo neanderthalis.

Answer 4

Other non-human organisms are classified into species and sub-species, but never races.  Race is a concept invented by people to make sense of our physical differences.  Biologically we are all the same.  Physically we differ.  The concept of race seems old fashioned to me, and was a way to legitimize prejudices against non-white humans.

Answer 5

Unfortunately , to answer this question truthfully would be considered racist.

Just look at past accomplishments of the 3 different races , if you are looking for differences in traits.

Answer 6

I'm pretty sure we're all humans. Besides appearance, there's nothing to suggest one race is better at certain things(despite popular belief).

Answer 7

Biologically speaking? There's no such thing as race.

There's no way to divide up the human race into a coherent set of exhaustive and exclusive racial categories.

(I used to have a professor who, when taking us out to identify plants -- the topic of the course -- would remark "Nice day for the race!" When asked what race, would reply "The HUMAN race!" -- your question brought this OLD memory to mind, for some reason.)

There is really one race. There are variations.

But the differences are mostly cosmetic (colorings and such), with a few medically significant differences (lactose intollerance, sickle-cell anemia -- stuff like that).

Our brains vary by individual. There are no "racial" differences in brain at all.

Answer 8

There are three main races, Black, White and Asian, these are classified by differences in physical appearance, (sorry guys Hispanic is a mix of white and Asian, so it's not considered a race) Hope this helps!