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There are no trademark genes basically. Is there a genetic factor present in all Black people that is not present in any Asian person and some on ? The answer i

There are no trademark genes basically. Is there a genetic factor present in all Black people that is not present in any Asian person and some on ? The answer is no, there isn't. https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-reshaping-race-debate-21st-century/ https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-res... >"Race’ cannot be biologically defined due to genetic variation among human individuals and populations." "In the Stanford study, over 92% of alleles were found in two or more regions, and almost half of the alleles studied were present in all seven major geographical regions. The observation that the vast majority of the alleles were shared over multiple regions, or even throughout the entire world, points to the fundamental similarity of all people around the world—an idea that has been supported by many other studies (Figure 1B). If separate racial or ethnic groups actually existed, we would expect to find “trademark” alleles and other genetic features that are characteristic of a single group but not present in any others. However, the 2002 Stanford study found that only 7.4% of over 4000 alleles were specific to one geographical region. Furthermore, even when region-specific alleles did appear, they only occurred in about 1% of the people from that region—hardly enough to be any kind of trademark."

tacitusarc 3y ago
This feels like moving the goal posts… and rather silly. Obviously people are dramatically more similar than different. But the concept of race is about those differences, and seems to be intimately tied to various gene expressions. Of course there isn’t an Asian gene or white gene or black gene, but there are genes that regulate hair color, height, facial structure, eye color, melanin production, etc., and those are what people think of when they think of racial differences. So to say race isn’t genetic seems silly at best.
- famouswaffles 3y ago
  It's not about being more similar than different. It's that you literally can't biologically divide people into the categories we divide them into. Two sub-saharan african men might be more genetically apart than one of those men and some White European fellow. In fact, Africa is more genetically diverse than the rest of the world combined. Yet those two Africans are "black" and supposed to be the same "race", separate from the white fellow. If an alien species landed on Earth today, took exhaustive genetic samples of everyone on the planet and did their best to classify us, it wouldn't look anything like our "races". That's the point. Maybe you think that's goalpost moving but it's not.
  - tacitusarc 3y ago
    This is moving the goal posts. Saying that members of the same racial group can actually be more genetically similar to members of another race has no bearing on whether or not the traits that define racial categories are genetically derived.

tacitusarc 3y ago

This feels like moving the goal posts… and rather silly. Obviously people are dramatically more similar than different. But the concept of race is about those differences, and seems to be intimately tied to various gene expressions. Of course there isn’t an Asian gene or white gene or black gene, but there are genes that regulate hair color, height, facial structure, eye color, melanin production, etc., and those are what people think of when they think of racial differences. So to say race isn’t genetic seems silly at best.

famouswaffles 3y ago
It's not about being more similar than different. It's that you literally can't biologically divide people into the categories we divide them into. Two sub-saharan african men might be more genetically apart than one of those men and some White European fellow. In fact, Africa is more genetically diverse than the rest of the world combined. Yet those two Africans are "black" and supposed to be the same "race", separate from the white fellow. If an alien species landed on Earth today, took exhaustive genetic samples of everyone on the planet and did their best to classify us, it wouldn't look anything like our "races". That's the point. Maybe you think that's goalpost moving but it's not.
- tacitusarc 3y ago
  This is moving the goal posts. Saying that members of the same racial group can actually be more genetically similar to members of another race has no bearing on whether or not the traits that define racial categories are genetically derived.