TOPICS FOR RESEARCH- 1. What is the essential biological meaning of "race"? Why is there such little agreement on racial categories? List and define the 3 major categories physical anthropologists...

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1. What is the essential biological meaning of "race"? Why is there such little agreement on racial categories? List and define the 3 major categories physical anthropologists have designated. What is it that most researchers agree upon in terms of race? What has been the most troublesome aspect of the idea of race?

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Sumita Mitra answered on Jul 16 2021
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Biological meaning of race
Race is a tool of human categorization which came into existence long back and is being carried on through decades and centuries with varied transformations and additions in its meaning. R
ace as such means to group humans or population on the basis of shared physical or social qualities and has common genetic characteristics and features.
The biological meaning of race is a topographically separated rearing population that shares certain attributes in higher frequencies than different population of that species, however has not gotten reproductively secluded from different population of similar species. It comes after species and subspecies ranking in the taxonomic classification of a population or a species. We all as such belong to various races as todays classification also includes a group of people or population from a region and hence race varies across continents and countries differently. A certain level of confusion also arises due to the definition of race as per biological concept and is not a sociological concept. On the basis of race, we can see in history colonisation of people happened in earlier centuries and is still existent in human settlements across the world. (https://www.sociologydiscussion.com/race)
‘Little agreement on racial categories’
A certain level of confusion also arises due to the definition of race as per biological concept and is not a sociological concept. We all as such belong to various races as todays classification also includes a group of people or population from a region and hence race varies across continents and countries differently. If we see modern views about racial categories than we can find there is little agreement in such concepts as race is socially constructed and is not intrinsic to humans and is created through identity by socially dominant groups of population. Race as such cannot be categorised as unique identities across the world. That is because if we see we all are humans and our biological name is Homo Sapiens. Too much of categorisation over the past decades has led to racism across the world which is a critical issue now in modern world. That is the reason...
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