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Thread #54752   Message #848786
Posted By: Troll
17-Dec-02 - 07:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Genetic 'Race' Non-existant
Subject: BS: Genetic 'Race' Non-existant
Racism, the idea that one "race" is genetically superior to another "race" is based on a false premise; that different genetic "races" exist.
At least, that's what the following article says.
Scientists:Race does not exist
                   December 17, 2002

                   The idea of race is not reflected in a person's genes, Brazilian researchers said yesterday,
                   confirming what scientists have long said - that race has no meaning genetically.

                   The researchers looked at one of the most racially mixed populations in the world for their
                   study, which found there was no way to look at someone's genes and determine his or her race.
                   Brazilians include people of European, African and Indian, or Amerindian, descent.

                   "There is wide agreement among anthropologists and human geneticists that, from a biological
                   standpoint, human races do not exist," Sergio Pena and colleagues wrote in the Proceedings of
                   the National Academy of Sciences.

                   "Races exist as social constructs," they said.

                   They found 10 gene variations that could reliably tell people apart genetically, but the
                   differences did not have anything to do with physical characteristics such as skin or hair
                   colour.

                   Maternal DNA suggested that even "white" people had, on average, 33% of genes that were of
                   Amerindian ancestry and 28% African. - Reuters
Boy, what a comedown for all the racists. No more "racial" superiority or inferiority. We's all jes folks.
Except for possibly 'Spaw. ***BG***

troll