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1. Race is a social construct, not a biological one (https://www.sulc.edu/assets/sulc/officeequityinclusiontitleix/RACE.pdf https://www.sulc.edu/assets/sulc/off
by mikequinlan 2y ago
1. Race is a social construct, not a biological one (https://www.sulc.edu/assets/sulc/officeequityinclusiontitleix/RACE.pdf https://www.sulc.edu/assets/sulc/officeequityinclusiontitlei...)
2. The fossil record shows that Neanderthals evolved in Europe and Western Asia approximately 400,000 years ago, while anatomically modern humans emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago. Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago.
- piloto_ciego 2y agoWhat’s the deal with us interbreeding with Neanderthals then? If they produce viable offspring with humans then aren’t we the same species? Or is there more to the definition of species then than my admittedly freshman biology class that I brain dumped as soon as I got done with school?
- mikequinlan 2y agoFrom Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species >While the definitions given above may seem adequate at first glance, when looked at more closely they represent problematic species concepts. For example, the boundaries between closely related species become unclear with hybridisation, in a species complex of hundreds of similar microspecies, and in a ring species. [...] If species were fixed and clearly distinct from one another, there would be no problem, but evolutionary processes cause species to change. This obliges taxonomists to decide, for example, when enough change has occurred to declare that a lineage should be divided into multiple chronospecies, or when populations have diverged to have enough distinct character states to be described as cladistic species.