Does Race Exist?
After all, hasn't The Science proven that all races are identical?
I asked Google’s AI and it said the dizty nepobaby Paola Ramos, daughter of Univision talking head Jorge Ramos, had The Science on her side and the fertility influencer couple Malcolm and Simone Collins were WRONG.
Q. Does race exist scientifically?
A. In the modern scientific community, the consensus is that
race does not exist as a biological or genetic category among humans. Instead, scientists recognize race as a social construct—a classification system created by humans to group people based on perceived physical, social, and cultural differences.
Scientific Consensus on Biological Race
Major scientific organizations, including the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), have concluded that there is no biological basis for dividing humans into distinct races.
The extremism of pronouncing “no biological basis” is striking. It would hardly be unreasonable to argue that trying to divide humans into races is “challenging,” but the dogmatism we see here seems designed more to reassure airheads like Ms. Ramos than to persuade thinking men.
Genetic Similarity: Any two humans share approximately 99.9% of their DNA. The 0.1% of variation that exists is primarily found between individuals rather than between “racial” groups.
Lack of Subspecies: In biology, a “race” is often synonymous with a subspecies. To qualify as a subspecies, a group must have a high level of genetic differentiation (typically a threshold of 25%) and a unique evolutionary history. Human populations do not meet these criteria, as we are too genetically similar and have mixed too frequently throughout history.
Clinal Variation: Human physical traits, such as skin color or hair texture, vary gradually (clinally) across geographic space rather than in discrete, separate categories. There are no sharp boundaries that divide one “race” from another.
The Atlantic Ocean is not a sharp boundary that divided one human race from another up through 1492?
I realize that the response would be that whoever heard of:
In 1492,
Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue?
How many groups protected under the the Endangered Species Act are not divided by a sharp boundary between species?
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