| the-pi-guy said:
http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/human-skin-color-variation https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-construct-scientists-argue/
I don't even understand what this is. No one says evolution stopped 50,000 years ago. White skin and blue eyes are less than 10,000 years old. Humans have very little variation genetically. We have far less variation than dogs, or even chimpanzees despite the quantity of humans. "As it turns out, scientists say, the human species is so evolutionarily young, and its migratory patterns so wide, restless and rococo, that it has simply not had a chance to divide itself into separate biological groups or ''races'' in any but the most superficial ways. ''Race is a social concept, not a scientific one,'' said Dr. J. Craig Venter, head of the Celera Genomics Corporation in Rockville, Md. ''We all evolved in the last 100,000 years from the same small number of tribes that migrated out of Africa and colonized the world.''"
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/22/science/do-races-differ-not-really-genes-show.html |
Come on. We aren't even close to understanding the human genome. It's in this ambiguity that people insert their ideology.
Did you know that you share 50% of your genes with a banana? Slight variations to the frequency of alleles in the genome can produce different results. My point is that in 50,000 years, significant changes have taken place. Not in percentage terms of what we understand of the human genome, but in obvious, observable, testable reality.
