Subj : race
To   : jimmylogan
From : Arelor
Date : Wed May 21 2025 02:06 pm

 Re: race
 By: jimmylogan to Gamgee on Tue May 20 2025 08:38 pm

> Biologically, you are right: humans are all one species: Homo sapiens.
> Scientifically, race is often considered a social construct with no
> significant biological basis. The Human Genome Project confirmed we
> are over 99.9% genetically identical across all so-called races.
>

Race might be a social contruct with no significant biological basis, but let me tell you nobody will mistake a throughbred for a hispano-breton horse. And while we are at that, nobody will take a hispano-breton to a race, but they will have her pull a cart instead of the throughbred any day.

But even the idea that race lacks biological basis is thin because the origins of people can be traced via biological markers - that is the reason why we know gypsies come from India, for example, because they are sufficiently distinct from other groups that their traits can be identified. And there are even hints that homo sapiens don't come from a single ancestor either but from a number of family trees that evolved separatedly.


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