Re: Are Armenians white????
well, I just looked at the wikipedia articles for Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid. The descriptions of their phenotypes are listed near the end of the respective pages (except Caucasoid, who's description is not included on wikipedia it seems). There's a lot of criticism about the usage of these terms and their basis for differentiating populations of mankind, as genetics does not seem to support it, nor do the fact that as Anonymouse puts it, "Differences are in degrees, not in kinds". In reality, you find overlap in the distribution of traits that apparently belong to these arbitrary racial categories in a given group.
Defenders of this kind of rigid basis for racial differentiation find the easy way out by just saying "well... Caucasoids and Mongoloids mixed there". Anyway, I don't know exactly how scientific it all is (afterall, genetic ancestry does not seem to correlate neatly with human phenotypes), but what I do know is that facial recognition is important to us humans, and that these classifications of phenotypes are intuitive for many of us, and so they will continue to be used by mankind as a basis for differentiation or recognition between groups of people.
well, I just looked at the wikipedia articles for Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid. The descriptions of their phenotypes are listed near the end of the respective pages (except Caucasoid, who's description is not included on wikipedia it seems). There's a lot of criticism about the usage of these terms and their basis for differentiating populations of mankind, as genetics does not seem to support it, nor do the fact that as Anonymouse puts it, "Differences are in degrees, not in kinds". In reality, you find overlap in the distribution of traits that apparently belong to these arbitrary racial categories in a given group.
Defenders of this kind of rigid basis for racial differentiation find the easy way out by just saying "well... Caucasoids and Mongoloids mixed there". Anyway, I don't know exactly how scientific it all is (afterall, genetic ancestry does not seem to correlate neatly with human phenotypes), but what I do know is that facial recognition is important to us humans, and that these classifications of phenotypes are intuitive for many of us, and so they will continue to be used by mankind as a basis for differentiation or recognition between groups of people.
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