Jakki wrote:
This maybe politically incorrect, but my biology class in high school refers to the humanoid species
Aswell as having the sub genus of Caucasoid, aswell as Negroid, had forgotten what Asiatic persons genus was?
Am quite sure there are various other geniuses and sub species of which , I am not familiar with. But those are the ones , I can recall . So if your running out of ways to refer to people of various descents , am supposing the scientific ones might be appropriate ? OR Not ????
You were taught stuff that was outdated, AND...you mustve been toking on sumpin good, and kinda got that outdated material even MORE confused!
It's the "human species". Not the "humanoid species". A "humanoid" creature would be an organism unrelated to man, but that outwardly looks human (two arms two legs a face). The vaguely human looking space aliens of fiction, and of supposed fact, are "humanoids". You and I are humans, of the species Homo Sapien, and are not "humanoids".
But the Victorians did split the human species up into "races" with labels that did end in "oid", which still in books in the early Fifties.
They were the Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid. Australoid, and Capiod (African Bushmen).
These terms arent really used anymore by scientists, though laypersons still speak in those labels.
A German in the late 1700s came up with a theory that each major "race" of the human species had a seperate and small point of geographic origin, and fanned out from that point. East Asians from Mongolia (hence the name "Mongoloid"), and Europeans and middle eastern peoples all fanned out from the Caucuses Mountains in Southern Russia.
We now know that the peoples of western Eurasia ("Whites" and brown folks in the middle east with White features)did NOT originate in the Caucuses Mountains. But though the theory is bunk the name "Caucasian" stuck for the "races" in question. And is still used.