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I mean, as you hinted there are at least a few things on that list that are true. We’re in a weird period of time where people are desperate to ignore any diffe

I mean, as you hinted there are at least a few things on that list that are true. We’re in a weird period of time where people are desperate to ignore any differences between races but they absolutely exist as one would expect due to different evolutionary pressures. I don’t know how you’d go about testing some of those and many shouldn’t matter to doctors, but I personally think the differences between us are fascinating.

foldr 4y ago
> We’re in a weird period of time where people are desperate to ignore any differences between races but they absolutely exist as one would expect due to different evolutionary pressures. This isn't really the case because 'races' aren't biologically definable categories, and hence have no direct relevance to evolution. There can be correlations between a person's assigned racial category in a given culture and certain biological features, such as e.g. propensity for sickle cell anaemia. However, this is just because there can be loose correlations between this category (which is usually assigned based on superficial features of appearance and cultural characteristics) and the areas of the world where the person's ancestors hail from. No serious scientific study of human difference pays any attention to race, as it is a largely arbitrary and culturally specific construct.