Where did RACE come from?

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Slimebeast said:

Lafiel said:

The skin color adjustment happened, because when humans headed north they came into zones with less intensive sunlight, but light is needed to produce Vitamin D (very essential - btw the only Vitamin humans produce themselves ). So the skin color slowly changed to adapt to those lighting conditions, because people with lighter skin were more likely to reproduce.

And, there are no human "races". Humans are far too similar to each other to call the local differences a "race".

Of course there are human races. You don't think that 70,000 years of separation (when modern humans left Africa) between human populations have lead to any significant differentiation?  But for some reason the 300-400,000 years difference between Homo sapiens and Homo Erectus is so important that it not only entails a separate race but even a separate species.

Key word here: politically correct. (and yes that sadly includes renowned scientists)

There's oftentimes more differentiation within "races" than there are between them. According to how we view race in biological studies, the different human "races" don't fit.

 

We're all homo sapiens sapiens.