write briefly the bases or criteria of division of human race
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Racial identification is made on the basis of a number of external and internal physical characteristics. The external physical characteristics are phenotypic characters, which are mostly adaptive in nature, but the internal physical characteristics are genotypic characters, which are strictly hereditary and non-adaptive.
Modem genetics has provided much information regarding the bodily characteristics of man. It has found that phenotypic characters may not tally with genotypic characters when recessive genes are present in the body. As a matter of fact, importance should be given on the genotypic characters while studying the racial criteria.
These generally are based on cultural and/or biological factors. Americans tend to see each other in terms of age, economic class, religion, gender , ethnicity, and race. We are usually a member of a particular group for each of these criteria.Jul 5, 2006