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people of different races, different skin colors, different anything, are in fact different from each other in a genetic way. every person is different from eve

by bronz 9y ago

people of different races, different skin colors, different anything, are in fact different from each other in a genetic way. every person is different from every other person on a genetic basis. i am sorry to be direct, but it is with no hatred or racism that i say the following: if a group of people all share the genetic trait that their skin is a certain color, it is possible they share other common genetic traits. this is simple logic, and it is correct. how deep these differences are, whether or not they are cognitive or psychological, has yet to be scientifically determined or even investigated. personally, i dont think its important for these things to be investigated. as long as all doors of opportunity are open to all people regardless of any genetic quality, i think we will be ok. it is important that we all broach the ugly subject of racial genetics with rational and compassionate minds. firing or punishing (socially and otherwise) people who try to discuss things such as this will lead to much worse outcomes in my opinion.

evolve2017 9y ago
It seems like you're open to learning more about genetics (I think...) so I'll share some interesting findings that don't really fit with the popular conception of race. It turns out that the most genetic variability lies between... black people who live in West Africa. While we can use 'junk DNA' to classify people somewhat well, that doesn't tell us much about what makes a person a person. This is not a controversial view - here's a discussion of it for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/
- bronz 9y ago
  genetics is complicated. not only is there so called junk dna, there is also epi-genetics. and even the genes that we correlate with certain diseases are not understood well. we dont understand how our dna translates into our physiology. and at no point have i pretended to understand this.
  - evolve2017 9y ago
    Totally agree! Especially as a PhD student in genetics. Just wanted to put out the point that race as we understand it does not map cleanly onto distinct phenotypes.
    - bronz 9y ago
      race does not map onto distinct phenotypes? what exactly do you mean?

by bronz 9y ago

evolve2017 9y ago

It seems like you're open to learning more about genetics (I think...) so I'll share some interesting findings that don't really fit with the popular conception of race. It turns out that the most genetic variability lies between... black people who live in West Africa. While we can use 'junk DNA' to classify people somewhat well, that doesn't tell us much about what makes a person a person. This is not a controversial view - here's a discussion of it for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/

bronz 9y ago
genetics is complicated. not only is there so called junk dna, there is also epi-genetics. and even the genes that we correlate with certain diseases are not understood well. we dont understand how our dna translates into our physiology. and at no point have i pretended to understand this.
- evolve2017 9y ago
  Totally agree! Especially as a PhD student in genetics. Just wanted to put out the point that race as we understand it does not map cleanly onto distinct phenotypes.
  - bronz 9y ago
    race does not map onto distinct phenotypes? what exactly do you mean?