How many human races are there in the world?

In traditional anthropological studies there are actually 5 races.

These are

1) Mongoloid (Asian and American Indian)

2) Caucasoid (European)

3) Australoid (Australian and oceanic)

4) Negroid (east African black)

5) Capoid (south African black)

The remaining peoples are mixtures or "mongrels" of the different races above. This theory was originally proposed by Ashley Montague and has been disputed for years, but has still withstood the test of time to a large extent. The biggest problem with this theory is that all races share 99.99+% of the same genetic materials which means that further division of race is largely subjective, and that the original 5 races were also probably just subjective descriptions as well. The above theory has been used by people in the past to support racism as well as to refute it. All in all the preponderance of evidence suggests that race is for now a subjective term. Furthermore, until DNA technology becomes even better, then there can be no better answer than Dr. Montague's, but that in time we will probably find more detailed versions. Apparently none of the other people answering this question have ever been to college much less have degrees in anthropology, biology and medicine!!!

There are 5, mentioned above, and that is the correct answer. Just look it up in an anthropology book, if you have any more questions regarding this very controversial subject now-a-days. I always thought it was foolish when asked if I was caucasian or hispanic? What are they thinking? Hispanic is not a race. This world still has issues after so many years of humans being on the planet. Let us be all a better race of humans.

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There is such thing as race DNA an forensics can pinpoint a persons race by cranial structure teeth bone structure but humans are the same species nothing in common with apes which are not human at all even the apes cannot interbreed like the different human races example a chimpanzee can't breed with a baboon or orangutan with a gorilla

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How Many Races Are There

The are actually only 3 races in the world.

1-Caucasoid (European)

2-negroid

3-Mongoloid (Asian and American Indian)

However many american indian tribes were part caucasoi, and some skeletal remains which the US Army Core of Engineers alowed thge native americans to destroy proived thgat there were caucasin in america over 15,000 years before there were any indians..

also his-painish is a lanmguage butmany peoles such as mexicans asume they are his-pa nish or latimos by race which is wrong. many muslims as stupid as itis think islam is a race and most muslim sof Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia assume they are a seperate race they are white with a few blacks/asians

the number 4 in biblical numerology is earth , when God created man he made 4 races on the 6th day; 6 representing incompleteness , God then rested on the seventh day, 7 always means rest, God went back to work on the 8th day and made a farmer type to care for the garden and to oversee everything else on earth starting in the garden itself. There are 5 races that have mixed. In Noahs flood if you will read with understanding who Noah was he was an eighth day race , the caretaker race ( the gardener race ) that is why he takes center stage here with his sons and received all the instructions for the ark. If you read Gods directions to Noah he told him to take 2 of All flesh ,this would include the 6th day races. God saw to the saving of all 5 races.

The two records of genealogy surrounding the account of the Flood—chapters 5 and 10—connect the entire human race with the first man, Adam, through Noah’s three sons. Assyrians, Chaldeans, Hebrews, Syrians, and some Arabian tribes, are descendants of Shem. Ethiopians, Egyptians, Canaanites, and some African and Arabian tribes descended from Ham. Indo-Europeans are descendants of Japheth. All humans are related, and all are born equal before God. (Acts 17:26) This truth must affect how we view and treat others.

How many races are in the world

Europeans are not the same race as North Africans or Native Americans.

White people like to take credit for everything. Respect people's identity and move on. Race has a lot of shades and features don't let people brain wash you.