The Concept of Race

In this Hitchcock Lecture from UC Berkeley, evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin reviews a number of studies on the genetic differentiation between individuals within local populations, of local populations within classic geographical races and between races. He shows that almost all human genetic variation is contained between individuals within any local population and that the consequences of repeated migrations, invasions, and mixture between groups destroys any clear racial boundaries. Series: UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures [2/2004] [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 8456]

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Education

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• evolutionary
• genetics
• race
• racial
• differences

[GungYoshi]

@phazon100

everything, we all started in africa. algerbra is actually from arabia, natural laws were 'discovered' by egyptians and arabs and repeated by greeks. european domination is based on war, greed and exploitation. Most european 'discoveries' were lies and hi-jacked from other races, even the printing press was first used by the Chinese. I am a white african, and i find your argument old, stale and unappealing.

[TheDisproof]

@reveal1914 Actually coroners do not have objective tools for defining "race", the give their own opinion which is basically artifically dividing the continuous human variation into subjective discontinuous groups. "race" cannot be biologically, objectively and genetically defined without artificially and subjectively dividing the human species.

[saltydog78]

@emotionalinvalid

I think race can be distinguished by how certain groups of humans evolve into characteristics suitable for their respective environments. Try to look into why most eskimos are short and fat; it's an advantageous trait to conserve energy in cold climates

[emotionalinvalid]

We can argue race and ethnicity forever. But the very fact that on this earth, any man who is not sterile can procreate with any fertile woman, regardless of their "race" or ethnicity, means we are one human race. Perhaps if we kept this in mind that among other progressive insights, it might lead to less exploitation, misery, war, death and destruction on this earth. But of course, and unfortunately empire is an equal opportunity exploiter and killer. the 99% must finally take the lead.

[chsn09]

@TheDisproof Well said!

[HybridD91]

@TheFaid We're all the same species....race basically means geographic subspecies? What? Name subspecies of Homo sapien sapien.