The scientific community continues to be divided over the concept that different human races exist. The consensus seems to be that there are no different human races in a biological sense. According to some definitions, human races exist. There are several reasons why the entire scientific community has not accepted the consensus. Until the Human Genome Project scientist had limited resources to determine whether human races existed. With scientific advances it has become clear that humans are descended from the same species and have migrated to populate the earth. There are numerous studies that demonstrate this in different ways. There are those who discount the biological idea that race does not exist in order to take advantage of the sociocultural use of races. Forensic anthropology is a field that uses old criteria of race even in light of new science, although they have begun to make changes. There continues to be divisions in the scientific community over the question of whether races exist biologically even after the era of genomic research. We know that humans were geographically divided into continental groups through migration. We certainly seem to belong to the same species all over the world. The term race is therefore used more for the classification of different groups of people or demes than to describe various evolutionary subspecies. If you think about the time factor of evolution which amounts to millions and billions, Homo sapiens is a fairly young species (Maglo 385). The concepts of race and subspecies are fundamentally the same thing in a biological sense. Subspecies are populations of the same species with the difference being the difference in genes or different groups of genes. Populations geographically isolated from each other for sufficiently long periods of time have been shown to develop significant genetic differences. These groups have
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