http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.c ... acy-160077
The uneducated like to reference David Duck classification of humans into groups based on incidence and prevalence of phenotypical traits (the statistical probability of the geographical origins of your ancestors) as evidence of "race". But what these scientific illiterates don't know is every phenotype exists in every "race". All humans have pretty much the same set of genes. But different populations have different proportions of each phenotype. For example, the genes related to dark hair are present in a very high rate in the Asian populations--which includes native americans--but in a much lower rate in European populations, but still there. The genes that account for racial differences (skin, hair, eye color, etc.) number only a few. That's less than a dozen out of the thousands of genes that can vary between one human and the next. That means that, while two people can both have the same color of skin, hair, and eyes, and look very similar, that similarity is only superficial. They may actually be more genetically different from each other than they are from a person of a different "race".
https://www.independentsciencenews.org/ ... itability/
This a is funny comment:
It's a common fallacy for people to think "race" is synonymous with human variation/diversity, when it isn't. The whole Caucasoid, Negroid, Mongoloid schemes is rooted in typology. The typological framework of delineating races in humans has no scientific or anthropological validity whatsoever and involves folk taxonomies based on perceived traits.When I was an undergraduate, I wrote a paper comparing Mohandas Gandhi's and Nelson Mandela's movements in South Africa, my subject of inquiry being why the results differed. In those days, UT had a closed stack library represented by a card catalog. I found a book I had never heard of by somebody I had never heard of titled "The Race Question in South Africa." Sensing pay dirt, I filled out a book request, only to find when it arrived....it was about Brits v. Boers. Because "race" is an empty category, it has been filled with different content at different times. You can find references to "the French race" or "the British race" and, of course, there was that deadly fantasy that lives today, "the Aryan race."
