Race: a stereotype

Abstract

In a typological and racial classification, the hypothesis is to suppose that races have existed at a “pure” level, before migrations would result in a large mixing. In this way of thinking, one forgets that migrations have always existed and thus gene flow too. When groups meet, they may or may not bleed, but they always breed.

Keywords:

• racial demarcation
• human variability
• populations
• migratory movements
• genetical similarities