Summary Paper
Culture, Not Race,
Explains Human
Diversity
"We... have to stop teaching or accepting the idea that humans are divided
into three races - Caucasian, Negroid, and Mongoloid
- an idea that is at least 50 years out of date."
Culture, Not Race, Explains Human Diversity, Mark Nathan Cohen,
Chronicle of Higher Education, April 17, 1998, pp.B4-B5.
The term race refers to a biological subdivision of a species. At one time, scientists held that there were as few as three such subdivisions in the species Homo sapiens: Caucasoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid. …
