(October 2, 2014 at 11:30 pm)Aractus Wrote:(October 2, 2014 at 10:15 am)ForumMember77 Wrote: LOL, thanks for the laugh.Human racial classifications have vexed anthropologists and geneticists for the last half-century, since biologists began to question the validity of taxonomy be- low the species level (Wilson and Brown 1953). The following flaws were repeat- edly pointed out (Lieberman and Jackson 1995; Keita and Kittles 1997; Templeton 1998). (1) There are no agreed-upon criteria for when to assign formal names to groups that might more appropriately be considered aggregates of local populations. (2) Race classifications fail for phenotypically intermediate populations. (3) They fail for individuals who trace their ancestry to two or more named races. (4) They are defied by sets of characters that show independent geographic trends. (5) It has been difficult to relate many human populations as distinct evolutionary lineages.
You've went from shouting fact and claiming you have a consensus among scientists, to, insulting the integrity of anyone I mention that disagrees.
I said there were many a scientifically minded folk, evolutionary biologists and anthropologists alike, who openly dispute what you say on Dawkins' site.
They are all crackpots I guess ?
I said I was curious and you quelled my curiosity, thanks. Please, continue to tell people that race is just a figment of our collective xenophobia.......... wait, if race doesn't exist then people can't call me racist anymore.
Another objection to racial classifications has been advanced for the past 30 years. This view holds that race classifications are unjustifiable when the variation within groups exceeds the variation between groups. Lewontin (1972) showed that 85.4% of the human species diversity could be attributed to allelic variation within populations, 8.3% to variation between populations within races, and only 6.3% to interracial variation. Many other studies have reiterated this finding (Barbujani et al. 1997).
Long, J. C. & Kittles, R. A. (2003). Human genetic diversity and the non-existence of biological races. Human Biology, 75 (4), pp. 449-471. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hub.2003.0058
Stop getting all uptight and logical about it and say if you want to be a black guy or an china man, fucking hell it's not difficult !
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
