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Race

1. You completely Whiffed on my last two posts #17/18. You had too.
Archaeologists can easily tell a Scandinavian skeleton from a sub-Saharan or a NE Asian one. That's because there are Races. You lost.

2. To further show you are in denial, or have No clue, you have now mistaken/conflated "skin tone" alone with Race!
Australian Aboriginals and sub-Saharans are both people of color, but are very different Races.
You use 'race' colloquially: The crude nightly news "black/white/cop."

Race is about Sets of features born of Tens of thousands of years of separate geographical evolution.
Stature; skeletal, including facial/cranial features; hair color/Texture, etc. So that even if a Pygmy was an albino, he would still be easily distinguishable from a Scandinavian/NE Asian, both in person, and from skeletal remains.

And of course, the coding for these different groups of features can be seen in your DNA/blood, and the reason Genetic testing companies can tell you your race, or percent thereof. Generally using 8-11 base populations/races.
 
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katzgar said:
If a person of One race gets a transplanted organ from another race what race is the resulting person
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It is difficult to tell if your question is meant as some type of humor, but since the person is most likely going to need
anti rejection drugs, the organ recipient will remain what ever race that were born as.
 

There are very few populations which have been isolated for 'tens of thousands of years'. And remember every one of us shares a common ancestor who lived only 100,000 back. A very short period in evolutionary terms.

All the genetic companies do is charge a fee to tell us what we knew all ready: everyone, repeat everyone is 'mixed race' thus rendering the concept of race useless.

No races, just gene pools. Millions of them, all overlapping with others and blurred at their edges.
 
There are plenty enough groups/Races Isolated for that amount of time.
In fact, you ARE now copping "very few", and not "none".

You thought race was merely "skin tone"!
Ouch.

And ALL subspecies/Races share a "common ancestor"/stock population before geographic split-off.. 'definitionally.'
Because Humans are/were more mobile that virtually all other creatures, they spread into many Exceedingly different environments, from Jungle, to, Desert, to the Himalayas, they were subject to huge genetic pressure to adapt.. and did.

100K years under that pressure is plenty of time to have separated.
ie, the Pygmy Mammoth, a separate Specie, evolved from Mammoths in just 30,000 years from Island Isolation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_mammoth#Evolution
BUT, Whoa to he who points out Australian Aboriginals did also into the even smaller/more easy Subspecie, and had much more time! Similarly other groups evolved.
The last Gorilla sub-species/Race is probably younger than that.

Chimps have Two Species each with 2 subspecies/Races.
Gorillas have Two Species and 6 or 7 subspecies/Races.
and neither of the above never left Central West Africa.

The Reality of Human Differences by Sarich and Miele
 
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Would "race" or "ethnicity" be closer to how we use the word "breed" in dogs. Or is there nothing that comes close?
 
Skeptic Bob said:
Would "race" or "ethnicity" be closer to how we use the word "breed" in dogs. Or is there nothing that comes close?
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"Breed" is a human manipulation, but does show in how short a time significant genetic changes are possible.
Race/subspecies is separate geographic evolution taking thousands/tens of thousands of years, or more in larger animals. Can be much shorter in the shorter the lifespan of fauna. As little a one or two generations in cases of ie, a 'Gene Sweep.'

Dogs (all breeds) are just One of the 37 subspecies/Races of Gray Wolves. There are probably 15+ subspecies/Races in North America alone. Vancouver wolves, Manitoba Wolves, etc, etc, etc. Many with less genetic distance/difference than between humans.

Most people think 'Chimpanzee' is just that alone, period. One Specie and One subspecies/Race. Same with Gorillas and... Gray Wolves.
So they have no frame of reference to use when evaluating whether human variation is great enough for delimitation. They just have PC politics.
 
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