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Thursday, June 12. 2014

A Biological Basis for Race?


Nicholas Wade’s credible new book challenges conventional wisdom about genetics.


There is nothing new there in the age-old nature-nurture game. Does it really need saying that people who are more closely related likely have more traits in common? "Race" and "ethnicity" are just words for common ancestry, like "distant cousins." Early humans spread around the earth, and bred with others in their own neighborhoods just like Darwin's finches. Naturally, differences happened but not to the extent of new species, but enough so that people recognize their cousins.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Our Essays, Psychology, and Dr. Bliss, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 12:58 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Stand by for incoming fire at his location! Extra-heavy incoming fire.
#1 Sam L. on 2014-06-12 15:29 (Reply)
As to the species thingy, if anthropologists thought like canid taxonomists (who are splitters) we would have several human species, all in Homo but no single sapiens.
#2 bob sykes on 2014-06-13 08:55 (Reply)
bob sykes: As to the species thingy, if anthropologists thought like canid taxonomists (who are splitters) we would have several human species, all in Homo but no single sapiens.

Taxonomists place dogs in a single species and subspecies, Canis lupus familiaris. Similarly, there is only one species and subspecies of extant humans, Homo sapiens sapiens.
#2.1 Zachriel on 2014-06-13 19:54 (Reply)

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