Black man and white woman in dark green row boat

Introduction

The term race is used to define groups with common hereditary characteristics which are subdivided in some species animals. In the case of Homo sapiens is controversial among scientists whether there are human races. The idea of classifying human beings human races appeared in Europe in the sixteenth century and was used in the West until the twentieth century measured. These classifications were made based on certain biological characteristics visible, mainly the amount of melanin people have in the skin, and some facial features. The idea of race in relation to human beings today unleashes highly contentious and there are those who question its use, claiming that no one can speak of different races among human beings because the difference genetically between them is minimal (Bank, 1981, p. 42). The critical view of the use of the term conception highlighted racist that the use of this term often carries. Since the 1940's, scientist's evolutionists have rejected the conceptualization of race where a number of essential characteristics finite can be used to determine the number of races. Many evolutionary scientists have presented their social views that the common definition of race, or any definition of race on humans, lacks rigor and validity taxonomic. Argue that they are vague and arbitrary, and that the races observed vary by culture examination.

Racial theories (collectively referred to as race theory and race theory) are theories that the human race into different races divided. The breeds are differentiated primarily due to physical characteristics like skin color and hair, but most are also differences in the character and abilities accepted (Bank, 1981, p. 44). These theories are now considered obsolete, because the alleged smoothly across the races and the genetic variability between these populations is much lower than the ...