Humans are much more able to travel & have babies with who they love regardles of race then ever before....?

Question

...Is this literally changing the face of the human race?

Children are being born with a far more mixed gene pool then ever before in history. This creates more variety in the human races and it is less clear cut to define your race by physical features and genes. Does that mean that before travel and interacial relationships that humans looked really similar and could almost be grouped and identified by looks as to where they are from right down to an area like a town/village?

Now there are more possibilities for combinations of genes might the face of the human be evolving so that eventually oneday we become the one big human race where either people all begin to look the same or would the variations be so mixed and unique that there becomes no clear racial distinctions at all?

Just curious. Thanks.

Answer 1

I think given time it is inevitable that we will have no more pure races, and everyone will be a mix that is undeterminable by looks.  But it will take a while to get to that point.  How long I'm not sure, because up till now it has been slow, but it may become exponential.  Perhaps it is programmed into our DNA at this time to be drawn to other races as opposed to our own, which is healthy for the gene pool.

Answer 2

"Race" or the physical traits that make up the social phenomena of race make up such a small percentage of human variation it's barely even worth thinking about in that context. It also means that the answer to your second question is no. I'd also like to point out that while inter-racial relationships are becoming more accepted in countries such as America, they are certainly not the norm. To pretend as if American cultural acceptance of exogamy is the norm for the world is rather ethnocentric of you. Please, pay more attention in class.

Answer 3

There was always some mixing here and there now and then. But there is much more of this now than ever before.

Yes, there were often strong family resemblances among inhabitants of isolated groups, as people would be related to nearly everyone else whose families had lived nearby for many generations.

No, we won't all look the same -- there's no way that billions of families can all interbreed with each other.

There will just be a lot more mixing and more variability.

There aren't really clear racial distinctions now, for huge hunks of the human population.