sundin13 said:
Aeolus451 said:
Geographical race.
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There is virtually nothing in the way of criteria to naturally delineate the borders between geographical races. Definitions are vague and lacking a true taxonomic backbone allowing classification. As such, it seems like depending on who you ask, there may be three geographical races or nine geographical races or any amount in between.
This lends it the appearance of an artificial distinction, or in other words, a social construct.
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A social construct is basically something made up and people just go by it. Geographical race just describes something tangible that exists regardless of the name or belief in it.
Humans have existed and lived on different continents, they adapted to their separate environments resulting in geographical races with biological differences. Again, races have different health issues and advantages from each other. Meds affect certain races differently on average. That doesn't sound like a social construct to me.
Geographical raceA distinct population that is
isolated in a particular area from other populations of a species,
[9] and consistently distinguishable from the others,
[9] e.g. morphology (or even only genetically
[3]). Geographic races are
allopatric.
[7]