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 Human - Psychology Wiki - A Wikia wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Humans often categorise themselves and others in terms of race or ethnicity, although the scientific validity of human races as categories is disputed.
Human ecology is an academic discipline that investigates how humans and human societies interact with their environment, nature and the human social environment.
Humanism as a philosophy defines a socio-political doctrine the bounds of which are not constrained by those of locally developed cultures, but which seeks to include all of humanity and all issues common to human beings.
psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Human   (8026 words)

  
 Cavalli-Sforza on Human Races
Races are, in fact, generally very far from pure and, as a result, any classification of races is arbitrary, imperfect, and difficult.
However human races are defined, there is no evidence of any decrease in fertility in crosses between even the most distant human races (for instance, between Africans and native American Indians).
Yet the validity and usefulness of this breakdown into smaller and smaller groups is doubtful, at least on the basis of present data.
www.goodrumj.com /CavalliS.html   (2910 words)

  
 dCult.com - dedicated to the exploration of cultural policy
Race: A race is a population of humans distinguished from other populations...
Conceptions of race, as well as specific racial groupings, vary by culture and time and are often controversial due to their impact on social identity hence identity politics.
Discussions of race are complicated because race research has taken place on at least two scales (global and national) and from the point of view of different research aims.
www.dcult.com /cDiversity/race.html   (9886 words)

  
 Race - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conceptions of race, as well as specific racial groupings, vary by culture and over time, and are often controversial, for scientific reasons as well as because of their impact on social identity and identity politics.
They further maintain that "race" as such is best understood as a social construct, and they prefer to conceptualize and analyze human genotypic and phenotypic variation in terms of populations and clines instead.
Race "connotes geographic ancestry, by continent or large continental subregion" and "is used to denote continental or subcontinental clades".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Validity_of_human_races   (11781 words)

  
 Human - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Humans or Homo sapiens as well as the whole Hominidae tree originated in Africa, but now inhabit every continent with a total population of over 6.5 billion as of 2006.
The tallest human population are the Dutch people, with the average height of a Dutch adult female being 170 centimetres (5 feet 7 inches), while the average height for a male is 185 centimeters (6 feet 1 inch).
Human beings are one of only six species to pass the mirror test—which tests whether an animal recognizes its reflection as an image of itself—along with chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, dolphins, and possibly pigeons.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_being   (7384 words)

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