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Re:Online activists are silencing us, scientists say by ddorian43 on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @10:59AM (#19379279)
Can you compare them after you split them ? Or are you saying you can't even compare them ? Can you compare "black races" with "asian races" ?
Re:Online activists are silencing us, scientists say by nathan_long on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @11:31AM (#19379658)
No. Go look at pictures of Melanesians. Are they "black"? Yet:

> Among Templeton's conclusions: there is more genetic similarity between Europeans and sub-Saharan Africans and between Europeans and Melanesians, inhabitants of islands northeast of Australia, than there is between Africans and Melanesians. Yet, sub-Saharan Africans and Melanesians share dark skin, hair texture and cranial-facial features, traits commonly used to classify people into races. According to Templeton, this example shows that "racial traits" are grossly incompatible with overall genetic differences between human populations.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/1998-10/WUiS-GSRD-07...

Re:Online activists are silencing us, scientists say by jniedrauer on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @11:34AM (#19379677)
I'm not a geneticist or an anthropologist, but by appearance alone, it seems like there is a much larger genetic difference between the Tutsi and the Pygmies than there is between Chinese and Koreans. And these are two races from the same exact region. There are hundreds of "races" from Africa. It's a massive continent.
Re:Online activists are silencing us, scientists say by fenomas on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @11:55AM (#19379913)
You can compare any groups you like, but only after you've decided who goes into which group. The point being made here is that with race, that decision is subjective, and heavily influenced by various social factors unrelated to people's genetics and so forth.