Some categorize themselves and others humans in terms of race or ethnicity. Racial categories are usually based on biological qualities, such as skin color, facial features, ancestry, and genetics. Ethnic groups are usually based on cultural, linguistic, religious, racial, or political affiliations. Conceptions of race and ethnicity, as well as specific groupings, are often controversial due to their impact on social identity and hence identity politics. Because children are often characterized as belonging to the same race or ethnicity as their parents, race or ethnicity are related to concepts of kinship and descent.See also:

Culture of human beings, Culture of human beings - Language, Culture of human beings - Race and ethnicity, Culture of human beings - Religion, Culture of human beings - Animism, Culture of human beings - Mysticism, Culture of human beings - Polytheism, Culture of human beings - Monotheism, Culture of human beings - Humanism, Culture of human beings - Society

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Validity of human races - History of challenges to racial validity Validity of human races - Arguments against racial validity
Validity of human races - Genetic variation Validity of human races - Race as a social construct and populationism
Validity of human races - Arguments for racial validity
Validity of human races - Genetic definitions of race
Validity of human races - Footnotes

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In contemporary Australia, what is often referred to as "racism" is usually focused on conceptions of ethnicity, rather than on such issues as skin colour, genetics, or a division of the human species into biologcally superior and inferior "races". While the majority group often calls itself "White" this is primarily used as a synonym for British ethnic background. With the exception of some Government-defined catagories, mostly developed in an attempt to counter racism, current Australian conceptions of "race" and ethnicity are based ...

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Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity, Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity - Race in Australia prior to European settlement, Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity - Institutional racism and conceptions of race and ethnicity, Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity - Popular Australian racism, Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity - Contemporary Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity, Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity - Terms or nicknames for ethnicities, Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity - Anti-racism in Australia

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Humans or human beings define themselves in biological, social, and spiritual terms. Biologically, humans are classified as the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin for "wise man" or "thinking man"): a bipedal primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, together with the other apes: chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons. Humans have an erect body carriage that frees their upper limbs for manipulating objects and a highly developed brain capable of abstract reasoning, speech, language, and ...

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Human - Terminology Human - Biology
Human - Anatomy and physiology Human - Life cycle Human - Genetics Human - Race and ethnicity Human - Habitat Human - Population Human - Human evolution Human - Intelligence
Human - Culture
Human - Origins Human - Language Human - Music Human - Emotion and sexuality Human - Body image Human - Trade and economics Human - Artifacts technology and science
Human - Mind
Human - Psychology and human ethology Human - Philosophy Human - Motivation Human - Self-reflection and humanism
Human - Spirit

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A race is a population of humans distinguished from other populations. The most widely used racial categories are based on visible traits (especially skin color and facial features), genes, and self-identification. Conceptions of race, as well as specific racial groupings, vary by culture and time and are often controversial due to their impact on social identity and hence identity politics. Since the 1940s, evolutionary scientists have rejected the view of race according to which a number of finite lists of essential ch ...

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Race - Historical origins of race
Race - History of the term Race - History of race research
Race - 20th- and 21st-century debates over race
Race - Scale of race research Race - Summary of different definitions of race
Race - The origins patterns and physical manifestations of human genetic variation
Race - Origins of modern humans Race - Distribution of variation Race - Substructure in the human population Race - Physical variation in humans
Race - Social interpretation of physical variation
Race - Incongruities of racial classifications Race - Ethnicity as a way of categorizing people Race - Ancestry as a way of categorizing people Race - Current disagreement across disciplines
Race - Case studies in the social construction of race
Race - Race in the United States Race - Race in Brazil
Race - Practical uses of race
Race - Race in politics and ethics Race - Race and intelligence Race - Race in biomedicine Race - Race in law enforcement
Race - Footnotes

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British settlement of Australia was originally intended to be conducted under British conceptions of negotiating settlement according to local law. Instead, the Sydney settlement proceeded without reference to this conception of British colonialism. The basis adopted was that of terra nullius. While some attempts were made by the government to apply British law in Australia equally to Indigenous and British civilians, the early history of the Sydney settlement was defined by sporadic conflict and forays between the two communities. From this ...

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Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity, Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity - Race in Australia prior to European settlement, Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity - Institutional racism and conceptions of race and ethnicity, Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity - Popular Australian racism, Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity - Contemporary Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity, Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity - Terms or nicknames for ethnicities, Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity - Anti-racism in Australia

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Race - Origins of modern humans. see also single-origin hypothesis, multiregional hypothesis. Any biological model for race must account for the development of racial differences during human evolution. For much of the 20th century, however, anthropologists relied on an incomplete fossil record for reconstructing human evolution. Their models seldom provided a firm basis for drawing inferences about the origin of races. Modern research in molecular biology, however, has provided evolut ...

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Race, Race - Historical origins of race, Race - History of the term, Race - History of race research, Race - 20th- and 21st-century debates over race, Race - Scale of race research, Race - Summary of different definitions of race, Race - The origins, patterns, and physical manifestations of human genetic variation, Race - Origins of modern humans, Race - Distribution of variation, Race - Substructure in the human population, Race - Physical variation in humans, Race - Social interpretation of physical variation, Race - Incongruities of racial classifications, Race - Ethnicity as a way of categorizing people, Race - Ancestry as a way of categorizing people, Race - Current disagreement across disciplines, Race - Case studies in the social construction of race, Race - Race in the United States, Race - Race in Brazil, Race - Practical uses of race, Race - Race in politics and ethics, Race - Race and intelligence, Race - Race in biomedicine, Race - Race in law enforcement, Race - Footnotes

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A race is a competition of speed. The competitors in a race try to complete a given task in the shortest amount of time. Typically this involves traversing some distance, but it can be any other task involving speed. A race to cover a certain distance may be any length, and using any means stipulated by the rules. Running a distance is the most basic form of racing, but races are often conducted in vehicles, such as boats and cars, on or ...

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Racing - List of types of race
Racing - Unassisted human racing Racing - Cycle racing Racing - Ski racing Racing - Animal racing Racing - Aircraft racing Racing - Motorized racing motorsport Racing - Boat racing Racing - Other types
Racing - Etymology

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Contemporary views on race vary considerably between and within academic disciplines. Contemporary views differ from historical ones. Many views are complex, and are distinguished by subtle differences. Often the significance of differences between views is related to the use of race in biomedicine. This article compares the major contemporary views on race. Contemporary views on race - Summary of contemporary views. Contemporary views on race - Do human races exist?. R ...

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Contemporary views on race - Summary of contemporary views
Contemporary views on race - Do human races exist? Contemporary views on race - What about subspecies? Contemporary views on race - If race had a biological basis what would it be? Contemporary views on race - The phylogeographic subspecies definition
Contemporary views on race - Background
Contemporary views on race - Total human genetic diversity Contemporary views on race - Time frame of modern human evolution Contemporary views on race - Distribution of genetic variation within/between populations
Contemporary views on race - Topical comparisons
Contemporary views on race - Which populations qualify as races? Contemporary views on race - Do self-identified races have biological validity? Contemporary views on race - Are self-identified races merely populations? Contemporary views on race - What are the implications of the clinal view of human variation? Contemporary views on race - What does admixture mean for the biological validity of races? Contemporary views on race - What is the relationship between race and ethnicity?

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The culture of human beings can be defined as follows: One common understanding of culture is to see it as consisting of three elements: values, social norms, and artifacts. Values are ideas about what is important. Norms are expectations of how people ought to behave. Each human culture has different methods, often called laws and legal systems, of describing and enforcing its norms, though there are unwritten expectations and informal sanctions too. Artifacts – things, or material culture – derive from the culture's value ...

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Culture of human beings - Language Culture of human beings - Race and ethnicity Culture of human beings - Religion
Culture of human beings - Animism Culture of human beings - Mysticism Culture of human beings - Polytheism Culture of human beings - Monotheism
Culture of human beings - Humanism Culture of human beings - Society

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Races may mean: Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service Humans distinguished from other populations Competitive Sport ...

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Race - Origins of modern humans. see also single-origin hypothesis, multiregional hypothesis. Any biological model for race must account for the development of racial differences during human evolution. For much of the 20th century, however, anthropologists relied on an incomplete fossil record for reconstructing human evolution. Their models seldom provided a firm basis for drawing inferences about the origin of races. Modern research in molecular biology, however, has provided evolutio ...

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Race, Race - Historical origins of race, Race - History of the term, Race - History of race research, Race - 20th- and 21st-century debates over race, Race - Scale of race research, Race - Summary of different definitions of race, Race - The origins patterns and physical manifestations of human genetic variation, Race - Origins of modern humans, Race - Distribution of variation, Race - Substructure in the human population, Race - Physical variation in humans, Race - Social interpretation of physical variation, Race - Incongruities of racial classifications, Race - Ethnicity as a way of categorizing people, Race - Ancestry as a way of categorizing people, Race - Current disagreement across disciplines, Race - Case studies in the social construction of race, Race - Race in the United States, Race - Race in Brazil, Race - Practical uses of race, Race - Race in politics and ethics, Race - Race and intelligence, Race - Race in biomedicine, Race - Race in law enforcement, Race - Footnotes

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The term Caucasian race is used almost exclusively in the United States to refer to people whose ancestry can be traced back to Europe, North Africa, West Asia, South Asia and parts of Central Asia. It was once considered a useful taxonomical categorization of human racial groups based on a presumed common geographic and/or linguistic origin. In the United States, it is currently used primarily as a distinction loosely based on skin color alone for a group commonly refered to as Whites, as defined by the American governm ...

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Caucasian race - History of the concept Caucasian race - U.S. Supreme Court rulings Caucasian race - Current views Caucasian race - Books

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An ethnic group is a culture or subculture whose members are readily distinguishable by outsiders based on traits originating from a common racial, national, linguistic, or religious source. Members of an ethnic group are often presumed to be culturally or genetically similar, although this is not in fact necessarily the case. Members of the same ethnic group often claim a common origin, although this is not always the case; one way that ethnic groups form is when people are forced to, or voluntarily, move from one part of the world to another. Cultural differences that were important in their original hom ...

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Ethnic group - In the West Ethnic group - Ethnicity

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A crime against humanity is a term in international law that refers to acts of murderous persecution against a body of people, as being the criminal offence above all others. International relations scholars have broadly defined "crimes against humanity" as acts so grave, on a scale so large, that their very execution diminishes the human race as a whole . On May 24, 1915, the Allied Powers, Britain, France, and Russia, jointly issued a statement explicitly charging for the first time ever another government of committing "a cr ...

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Crime against humanity - Notes

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This is an alphabetical list with the major and minor races in the Warcraft universe — a fictional universe in which a series of games and books are set. The characters races here have been featured prominently at one time or another in the Warcraft universe, and commonly depicted as heroic, villainous or sometimes both and this is subject to changes in the Warcraft universe and timeline. Races in the Warcraft universe - Animals. Various kinds of animals inhabit Azeroth. Most of them only ap ...

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Races in the Warcraft universe - Animals
Races in the Warcraft universe - Bats Races in the Warcraft universe - Bears Races in the Warcraft universe - Boars Races in the Warcraft universe - Canines Races in the Warcraft universe - Carrion Birds Races in the Warcraft universe - Crawlers Races in the Warcraft universe - Crocolisks Races in the Warcraft universe - Felines Races in the Warcraft universe - Gorillas Races in the Warcraft universe - Horses Races in the Warcraft universe - Owls Races in the Warcraft universe - Rams Races in the Warcraft universe - Raptors Races in the Warcraft universe - Scorpids Races in the Warcraft universe - Spiders Races in the Warcraft universe - Tallstriders Races in the Warcraft universe - Turtles Races in the Warcraft universe - Winged Serpents Races in the Warcraft universe - Zhevra
Races in the Warcraft universe - Chimaera Races in the Warcraft universe - Dragons
Races in the Warcraft universe - Frost Wyrms Races in the Warcraft universe - Black Dragons and Dragonspawn Races in the Warcraft universe - Red Dragons and Dragonspawn Races in the Warcraft universe - Blue Dragons and Dragonspawn Races in the Warcraft universe - Bronze Dragons and Dragonspawn Races in the Warcraft universe - Emerald Dragons and Dragonspawn
Races in the Warcraft universe - Gryphon Races in the Warcraft universe - Hippogryph Races in the Warcraft universe - Kodo Races in the Warcraft universe - Thunder Lizard Races in the Warcraft universe - Wyvern Races in the Warcraft universe - Doom Guards Races in the Warcraft universe - Elemental Races in the Warcraft universe - Eredar Races in the Warcraft universe - Felhound Races in the Warcraft universe - Fel Guard Races in the Warcraft universe - Gargoyle Races in the Warcraft universe - Infernal Races in the Warcraft universe - Nathrezim Races in the Warcraft universe - Pit Lord Races in the Warcraft universe - Satyrs Races in the Warcraft universe - The Scourge Races in the Warcraft universe - Succubi Races in the Warcraft universe - Void Walker Races in the Warcraft universe - Centaur Races in the Warcraft universe - Draenei Races in the Warcraft universe - Dryads Races in the Warcraft universe - Dwarves Races in the Warcraft universe - Elf
Races in the Warcraft universe - Night Elf Races in the Warcraft universe - High Elf Races in the Warcraft universe - Blood Elf
Races in the Warcraft universe - Faceless Ones Races in the Warcraft universe - Furbolg Races in the Warcraft universe - Goblin Races in the Warcraft universe - Golem Races in the Warcraft universe - Gnoll Races in the Warcraft universe - Gnome Races in the Warcraft universe - Harpy Races in the Warcraft universe - Human Races in the Warcraft universe - Keeper of the Grove Races in the Warcraft universe - Kobold Races in the Warcraft universe - Makura Races in the Warcraft universe - Mountain Giants Races in the Warcraft universe - Murloc Races in the Warcraft universe - Naga Races in the Warcraft universe - Nerubian Races in the Warcraft universe - Ogre Races in the Warcraft universe - Orc Races in the Warcraft universe - Pandaren Races in the Warcraft universe - Quilboar Races in the Warcraft universe - Silithid Races in the Warcraft universe - Sprite/Faerie Dragons Races in the Warcraft universe - Tauren Races in the Warcraft universe - Titans Races in the Warcraft universe - Treant Races in the Warcraft universe - Trogg Races in the Warcraft universe - Troll
Races in the Warcraft universe - Dark Trolls Races in the Warcraft universe - Forest Trolls Races in the Warcraft universe - Ice Trolls Races in the Warcraft universe - Jungle Trolls Races in the Warcraft universe - Sand Trolls
Races in the Warcraft universe - Tuskarr Races in the Warcraft universe - Undead
Races in the Warcraft universe - Forsaken Races in the Warcraft universe - The Scourge
Races in the Warcraft universe - Wendigo Races in the Warcraft universe - Wildkin Races in the Warcraft universe - Worgen

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In some societies, color metaphors for race, often originating from differences in human skin color, are used in racial classifications. Color metaphors for race - Western classifications. In the West, particularly the United States, the primary color metaphor for race is the classification of persons of African ancestry as "black" and persons of European ancestry as "white". In Australia, Indigenous Australians are also called "black". The terms negro, colored, and Negroid also served as color metaphors (e ...

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Color metaphors for race - Western classifications Color metaphors for race - Russia Color metaphors for race - India Color metaphors for race - China Color metaphors for race - Central Asia Color metaphors for race - Notes and references

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Race - Origins of modern humans. see also single-origin hypothesis, multiregional hypothesis. Any biological model for race must account for the development of racial differences during human evolution. For much of the 20th century, however, anthropologists relied on an incomplete fossil record for reconstructing human evolution. Their models seldom provided a firm basis for drawing inferences about the origin of races. Modern research in molecular biology, however, has provided evolutio ...

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Race, Race - Historical origins of race, Race - History of the term, Race - History of race research, Race - 20th- and 21st-century debates over race, Race - Summary of different definitions of race, Race - The origins patterns and physical manifestations of human genetic variation, Race - Origins of modern humans, Race - Distribution of variation, Race - Substructure in the human population, Race - Physical variation in humans, Race - Social interpretation of physical variation, Race - Incongruities of racial classifications, Race - Ethnicity as a way of categorizing people, Race - Ancestry as a way of categorizing people, Race - Current disagreement across disciplines, Race - Case studies in the social construction of race, Race - Race in the United States, Race - Race in Brazil, Race - Practical uses of race, Race - Race in politics and ethics, Race - Race and intelligence, Race - Race in biomedicine, Race - Race in law enforcement, Race - Footnotes

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Races in The Belgariad - Alorns. Alorns are the people of Belar, occupying the north of the western continent. Once the people of Aloria, they diverged after that empire was divided. They maintain strong military and economic ties; indeed, for most purposes a united Alorn military exists, with each nation contributing a particular specialisation. This is by design, its purpose being the protection of the Orb of Aldur. Algars are the people of Algaria. At the dividing of Aloria, Algar Fl ...

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Races in The Belgariad, Races in The Belgariad - Humans, Races in The Belgariad - Alorns, Races in The Belgariad - Angaraks, Races in The Belgariad - Arends, Races in The Belgariad - Marags, Races in The Belgariad - Nyissans, Races in The Belgariad - Tolnedrans, Races in The Belgariad - Sendars, Races in The Belgariad - Godless Ones, Races in The Belgariad - Non-humans

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As well as the three recognised human sub-species that are recognised as Major Races, there are at least 22 others classified as minor races (though some dispute this classification). Many human races are indistinguishable from each other though a few began from a small gene pool and/or developed in an extreme environment develop unique characteristics. Minor Race - Acheron. Minor Race - Answerin. Minor Race - Azhanti. ...

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Minor Race, Minor Race - Minor Human Races, Minor Race - Acheron, Minor Race - Answerin, Minor Race - Azhanti, Minor Race - Darrians, Minor Race - Dynchia, Minor Race - Geonee, Minor Race - Iltharan, Minor Race - Irhadre, Minor Race - Kargol, Minor Race - Luriani, Minor Race - Nexxies, Minor Race - Otrai, Minor Race - Suerrat, Minor Race - Yilean, Minor Race - Devi, Minor Race - Ebokin, Minor Race - Gurvin, Minor Race - The Inheritors, Minor Race - Inyx, Minor Race - Ithklur, Minor Race - Lithkind, Minor Race - Llellewlowy, Minor Race - Loeskalth, Minor Race - Mahkahraik, Minor Race - Saie, Minor Race - Schalli, Minor Race - Vegans, Minor Race - Za’Tachk

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