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I'm not sure your link backs up the assertion. For example: "Citrus fruits are all derived from a common fruit, and so are apples and pears, and plums and apri
by smallerfish 5y ago
I'm not sure your link backs up the assertion. For example:
"Citrus fruits are all derived from a common fruit, and so are apples and pears, and plums and apricots – but an apple and an orange, or a fig and a peach, do not share a fruit ancestor."
What he's saying is that trees evolved convergently, i.e. "Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time" (wikipedia). That's not the case (as far as I know) with humans, and human races.
- culi 5y agoI think what User23 meant was that our cultural constructs of race are usually based on some key phenotypical differences. A North African person is more closely related to Europeans on average than to a South African person yet they're usually classed as the same "race". But you're right that User23 is still incorrect as that's not proof that melanin-rich skin evolved multiple times independently