The notion of biological race is based on the premise that there are significant biological variables that can be used to separate one group of homo sapiens from another. Initially there were three racial categories proposed: negroid, mongoloid, and caucasoid. The variables used for this system were visible, external features such as skin color, hair color/texture and facial features. There are numerous problems with this taxonomy that only slowly came to light. First, members of each of these "biological races" can reproduce with members from any of the other two groups. For example, a female caucasoid and male mongoloid can produce a child together. The offspring would then need to be classified as a combination of the two races (CM). Meanwhile, the offspring of a mongoloid and negroid, (MN) could reproduce with the CM, resulting in a NCM. The net result here is obvious. The initial characteristics that were used to separate the "races" as if they were monumentally different are quickly dissolved. Hence, one must conclude that those biological variables really are not that significant.
A second natural criticism of the tripartite racial division of homo sapiens is that some groups do not fit into any of them. The Australian Aborigines are the most clear cut example of this. They have hair color and texture that would place them in the caucasoid race but skin color that would locate them in the negroid race. When researchers were confronted with this apparent anomaly they performed what is called a secondary elaboration (a secondary elaboration is done to rationalize a disparity in something where it was claimed there were none): they created a fourth race, australoid.
Impossible is from Germany, originally. Does that make him a nazoid?
