Racial Classification Is a Political Issue

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Essay

Racial classification is a political issue.Compare the Canadian census in its treatment of racial categories to the U.S.census.What do you think would be the political consequences of using one census over another?

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Definitions:

Microevolution

Evolutionary change within a species or small group of organisms, especially over a short period.

Hybrid Inviability

A postzygotic reproductive isolating mechanism in which the embryonic development of an interspecific hybrid is aborted.

Mutation

A change in the DNA sequence within an organism's gene or chromosome, leading to variations in trait expression and possibly to different phenotypes.

Habitat Isolation

A type of prezygotic barrier where two species that could interbreed do not, because they inhabit different habitats and rarely encounter each other.