(February 19, 2022 at 12:47 am)Ferrocyanide Wrote: That doesn't make any sense. We can visually tell what race a person is. Even police forensic uses skull shapes to tell from which race a person is. Therefore, there should be some genetic information behind those features.Genetic information tells us about the local breeding pop. You can't actually tell what race a person is by looking at them, less so if you want "race" to have anything to do with genetics. A white man from north africa has more in common with a black man in north africa than a black man in north africa has with a black man in north america...and the white man in north america has more in common with the black man in north america than the white man in north africa. This... even though we've tried to segregate the breeding populations for generations. You might be amused at some of the things 23andme turned up in the us with regards to race, and perceptions of race. Not just other peoples, but our own.
That's the reality of genetics, regardless of what the police do - a poor indicator of race realism if ever there were one.
Quote:In Origin of Species, although it is an old book, they seem to call these variations.Yeh, unless they're reproductively isolated, then they'd be subspecies. No group of humans beings is reproductively isolated from any other. In fact, we're one of the most well mixed animals on the planet. Groups of chimpanzees living together are more genetically diverse than human beings living on different continents from each other. Wild, huh?
Quote:Nah, judaism is not a race. It is a culture and religion.We do. Tons. Not that it matters, since we won't need to use any ethnic term to refer to the majority of jewish people we're likely to meet. They're white.
In armenian, we call them movsessagan (the religion). The english version of the religion would be Mosesianism.
The culture is called hria.
I don't know why in english, you don't have separate words.
No, judaism is not a race or ethnicity - but once upon a time they believed as much and even insisted that they were the chosen race. Yet another way all human beings are broadly similar.
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