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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by bronz on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:32PM (#14953879)
genetics is complicated. not only is there so called junk dna, there is also epi-genetics. and even the genes that we correlate with certain diseases are not understood well. we dont understand how our dna translates into our physiology. and at no point have i pretended to understand this.
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by evolve2017 on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:48PM (#14954012)
Totally agree! Especially as a PhD student in genetics.

Just wanted to put out the point that race as we understand it does not map cleanly onto distinct phenotypes.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by bronz on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:22PM (#14963950)
race does not map onto distinct phenotypes? what exactly do you mean?
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