Pros And Cons Of Phenotypes

The PBS series “Race: The Power of an Illusion” effectively works to expose race as a social construct and deconstructs the false notions that race is a biological marker. The series first discusses that all human beings originated from Africa but dispersed about 70,000 years ago to various places in the world. As a result of this migration, people were spread to different locations throughout the world with different environmental conditions that affected their physical traits. It was many years after the migration in which people began to display these new physical traits such as slanted eyes, fair skin, and differing hair textures. While the series notes the physical changes that occurred during the migration it also emphasizes that race while it may seem apparent in skin color and other physical features has no real biological basis.

Furthermore, there have been further studies regarding identified small changes in DNA that account for the pale skin of Europeans, the tendency of Asians to sweat less and West Africans' resistance to certain diseases. Consequently, genetic information is slipping out of the laboratory and into everyday life, carrying with it the inescapable message that people of different races have different DNA. This has only worsen the way the predominant communities see other societies and therefore has made the biological view of race one of the strongest in the creation of race. Other various ways, in which the biological view of race has affected society’s construction of race is by the creation of drugs that can only be taken by specific communities,

It may be hard to understand, but race is not biological, rather it’s a social construction. Race is dynamic in which it varies over time, space, and even place. What is considered white in the United States may be different from what is considered white in China. There are three reasons for why race is a social construction and they are that race was not created by a single person rather a mass of people, as societies change so does race, and because race is different and defined differently from place to place.

Is Race Biologically Real? People often use the meaning of “race” like a sticker; race is defined by skin color, eyes and body shape, hair texture and facial features. However, there are no genetic markers which will prove that one race is different than another. The concept of race isn’t biologically real but “race” it’s a method to divide a group from another one. Race doesn’t have any genetic basis. There is no genetic characteristic such as; gene or feature to tell the differences between humans. In other words, the race isn’t biologically real because there is no scientific evidence which can prove that race is biologically real because there is no ‘genetic markers’ evidence-which cannot be denoted that one particular group is different than other.

Humans as social beings, interact and constructed abstract significance. Even though, there is not gene or cluster of genes common to all Caucasians, Asians, Blacks, or Australoids racial classification for individuals remain presented around the world.

Is race biologically real? Race is not biologically real there are not multiple human races. There are no sub orders of humans all humans are just that Human no matter what the outer layer of skin might look like. We are all the exact same on the inside no matter if we are black, white, Hispanic or any other pigment/ethnicity. Skin color is simply the bodies’ reaction to the amount of UV light that the skin is receiving. There is only one biological group of humans, we are all the exact same on the inside and any differences we have are caused by the environment. Saying that people with black skin and people with white skin are two different races is as silly as saying the guy with a tan is a different race from the guy without a tan. Skin

Race is not a biological reality because there are no indications of some biological DNA that would have a certain outcomes of a race. The variation in skin tone comes from the mix of certain races. For example, the mix of black and white would result a skin color of Latino. However, the mix of white and yellow (Asians) will most likely result a child having more essential characteristics of white people. It is impossible to classify humans into races because human is making a new race every single moment from the combination of two people who come from different races. Light skin and dark skin have a lot to deal with the temperature, latitude and langtitude of the region. It could be characterized by a regions, instead of ethnic groups. Race

According to Science Daily, the origin of life is best explained through the “Out of Africa” theory, in which humans originated out of Africa and over time, migrated to different parts of Europe and Asia. This theory that humans originated from one place should be enough to support the fact that there are no races. It is hard to imagine a group of people in Africa with individuals who displayed different physical characteristics. For example, there was no single “Caucasian” or “Asian” person in this clan who started these lineages. It is highly likely that this group of primitive humans had more similar physical characteristics than dissimilar. Therefore, it is impossible for races to exist if we are all linked to the same family. To further support this theory, science has proven that many “races” have similar characteristics; there are no distinct genetics that makes humans inherently different. PBS’ website Race: The Power of Illusion, presents different cases in which humans can potentially be classified, for example: skin, fingerprints, and blood type.

Race is not determined by biological factors, but it is a socially constructed idea. It is a way of differentiating people, because race is one of the first features that a person notice about one another. In the United States, we still see race as skin color to judge everyone to as what group they belong to. By knowing that racism is socially constructed we would be able to educate

Race has been a topic used as a means of division and categorization for years. Scientists and people in general have used race to separate racial groups and to determine which race is “superior” or “inferior”. However, as we progress in society, studying the differences between races serves to understand and help one another, rather than to degrade. Studying the different genetic makeups between races serves as a helpful tool to educate individuals on health risks they may be more susceptible to because of their racial background.

The English term ‘race’ is believed to originate from the Spanish word raza, which means ‘breed’ or ‘stock’ (Race). People use race to define other groups, this separation of groups is based largely on physical features. Features like skin color and hair don’t affect the fundamental biology of human variation (Hotz). Race is truly only skin deep, there are no true biological separations between two ‘racial’ groups. Scientifically speaking, there is more variation between single local groups than there is between two large, global groups; the human variation is constantly altering (Lewontin). The majority of today’s anthropologists agree that race is a form of social categorization, not the separation of groups based on biological

Many may argue that race is a social construct and others that it is biologically real. Pigliucci and Kaplan argue in their article, on the concept of biological race and its applicability to human, race is seen as being a form of defining ethnicity or culture has been defined societally and not scientifically or philosophically “the best way of making sense of systematic variation within the human species is likely to rely on the ecotypic conception of biological races” (Pigliucci and Kaplan 2003). A group of organisms residing in a specific environment, genetically adapted to certain environments and distinguished from one another based on “many or a very few genetic differences.” Gene flow between them is common. Thus, a single population

Race, as described by the Project of the American Anthropological Association, is simply a cultural creation set forth by scientists and recent history (American Anthropological Association, 2016). Scientists had a theory of categorizing humans. By the 19th century, there were two theories about humans and races. The first theory involved believing humans were categorized by different species based on their individual race. The second theory categorized humans as one specie, and race, represented different variations in the human species.

The idea of race has been disproved due to lack of genetic variation within humans. There are not genetically distinguishable differences between humans, contradicting the idea there are subspecies as suggested by Carl Linnaeus’ theory of racial taxonomy (later taken up by Blumenbach in 1779 and expanded upon to categorise five races instead of four). Subspecies within the human race would require much greater genetic variation between ‘races’, whereas it has been determined that there is more genetic variation within a group of people than between groups of people. This can be attributed to the amount of time homo sapiens have

“Although we are all members of a single species, we differ from one another in such visible traits as the color of our skin and the shape of our noses, and in biochemical factors such as our blood types and our susceptibility to certain diseases” (Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, 2013, p. 34). To understand human physical development and evolution one has to understand biological anthropology as the focus on humans as biological organisms. Biological anthropologist conduct research, and form techniques of modern molecular biology to learn about human variation and how it relates to different environment humans lived in as well as their conditions.