Question

What is the study of the human race by providing ideal nature is known as?
A. Eugenics
B. Euphenics
C. Euthenics
D. None of the above

Answer 1

Hint: In order to allow human development, the functioning of humans and the change in the lifestyle, climatic conditions, and the atmosphere in which they live should be improvised.

Complete Answer:
- A race is a grouping of humans into categories generally seen as distinct by society based on shared physical or social qualities. Then, the term was used to refer to speakers of a popular language, later to describe national affiliations. The word started to refer to physical (phenotypical) characteristics in the 17th century.
- Modern scholarship regards ethnicity as a social concept, an identity that is distributed on the basis of society's laws. While partially based on physical similarities within groups, race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning.
- Over time, social conceptions and groupings of races have varied, often including folk taxonomies that describe critical categories of persons based on assumed characteristics. Today, scientists consider such biological essentialism obsolete and generally discourage racial explanations for collective differentiation in both physical and behavioural traits.
- Scientists around the world attempt to conceptualise race in radically varying ways, even as there is a strong scientific consensus that essentialist and typological conceptualizations of race are untenable.
- While the concept of race continues to be used by some researchers to differentiate between fuzzy sets of traits or observable behavioural differences, others in the scientific community suggest that the idea of race is inherently naive or simplistic. Yet, some argue that, among humans, the race has little taxonomic meaning and all living humans belong to the same subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens.

So the answer is “option A”.

Note: The association of race with the discredited theories of scientific racism has contributed to the race becoming increasingly seen as a largely pseudo-scientific system of classification since the second half of the 20th century. Although still used in general contexts, the race has often been replaced, depending on the context, by less ambiguous and loaded terms: populations, individuals, ethnic groups, or communities.