Talk:Capoid
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[edit] Physical anthropology
The first paragraph of this article seems to indicate that physical anthropologists, as a group, recognize racial classification (particularly the of the -oid variety). According to this statement by the AAPA (statement on race), no such recognition is evident (two extracts follow: "Pure races, in the sense of genetically homogenous populations, do not exist in the human species today, nor is there any evidence that they have ever existed in the past." "The geographic pattern of genetic variation within this array is complex, and presents no major discontinuity. Humanity cannot be classified into discrete geographic categories with absolute boundaries.") Unless contradictory evidence can be cited for this claim that physical anthropologists recognize this racial classification, I will change the wording.--Ove 23:12, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] language change
I do not think this article reflects the controversial nature of this racial classification, nor does it compare with the complexity of the other -oid articles (as difficult as they are in themselves). If there are no comments in the next few days, I will delete most of this text and replace it with something more in line with the other articles. --Ove 17:49, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Bantu Migrations
Isn't the Capoid presence in East Africa refering more specifically to Ethiopia and the Horn (i.e. fossils from the Awash river Valley and modern Afar Region)? If so, this would make the Bantu migration portion of the sentence incorrect. Yom 05:10, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
- I believe there are remnant "proto-Khoikhoi" populations in the African Great Lakes area, and I suppose there are other indicators that point to a historic Capoid presence in all of Eastern and Southern Africa before the Bantu, Arab, Malay and European migrations into the region. // Big Adamsky • BA's talk page 08:46, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
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- Oh okay, that clears things up, then. As a side point though, Arab migrations (or Yemeni, rather) are no longer though to have occured in East Africa. Yom 09:13, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
