Question

Why are humans divided into races? (2) Is 'race' a product of Biological evolution? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Race :

A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as inherently distinct by society.

First used to refer to speakers of a common language and then to denote national affiliations, by the 17th century the term race began to refer to physical (phenotypical) traits.

Modern scholarship regards race as a social construct, that is, a symbolic identity created to establish some cultural meaning.

While partially based on physical similarities within groups, race is not an inherent physical or biological quality.

Yes, race a product of biological evolution :

Today, all humans are classified as belonging to the species Homo sapiens.

However, this is not the first species of homininae:

The first species of genus Homo, Homo habilis, evolved in East Africa at least 2 million years ago, and members of this species populated different parts of Africa in a relatively short time.

Homo erectus evolved more than 1.8 million years ago, and by 1.5 million years ago had spread throughout Europe and Asia.

Virtually all physical anthropologists agree that Archaic Homo sapiens , a group including the possible species H. heidelbergensis, H. rhodesiensis and H. neanderthalensis evolved out of African Homo erectus or Homo ergaster.

Anthropologists support the idea that anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) evolved in North or East Africa from an archaic human species such as H. heidelbergensis and then migrated out of Africa, mixing with and replacing H. heidelbergensis and H. neanderthalensis populations throughout Europe and Asia, and H. rhodesiensis populations in Sub-Saharan Africa , a combination of the Out of Africa and Multiregional models.