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Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. [1] The term came into common usage during the 16th century, when it was used to refer to groups of various kinds, including those characterized by close kinship relations. [2]
The word "race", interpreted to mean an identifiable group of people who share a common descent, was introduced into English in the 16th century from the Old French rasse (1512), from Italian razza: the Oxford English Dictionary cites the earliest example around the mid-16th century and defines its early meaning as a "group of people belonging to the same family and descended from a common ...
Asian alone 4.75% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone 0.17% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) Some Other Race Alone 6.19% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) Mixed (Two or More Races) 2.92% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) Population: 308 745 538
Population of the world from 10,000 BC to 2000 AD (logarithmic scale) Estimating the ancestral population of anatomically modern humans, Colin McEvedy and Richard Jones chose bounds based on gorilla and chimpanzee population densities of 1/km 2 and 3-4/km 2, [1] respectively, then assumed that as Homo erectus moved up the food chain, they lost an order of magnitude in density.
The world has hundreds of major cities, mostly in coastal regions. According to the latest official data, the world population is 8,179,580,000 people. As of 2022, the world had 159 metropolitan areas with a population of over 3,000,000 people each. [30] As of 2010, about 3 billion people live in or around urban areas. [7]
Race and crime; Race and ethnicity in censuses; Race and genetics; Race and intelligence; Race and sports; Race and video games; Racial equality; Racial formation theory; Racialized society; La raza cósmica
Social interpretations of race regard the common categorizations of people into different races. Race is often culturally understood to be rigid categories (Black, White, Pasifika, Asian, etc) in which people can be classified based on biological markers or physical traits such as skin colour or facial features. This rigid definition of race is ...
Two historical anthropologists favored a binary racial classification system that divided people into a light skin and dark skin categories. 18th-century anthropologist Christoph Meiners, who first defined the Caucasian race, posited a "binary racial scheme" of two races with the Caucasian whose racial purity was exemplified by the "venerated ...