Scientist proves race differences!

[Theherooftheday]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/us...yIOQHByc3ZYRA&

Did you really think we were all the same lol!

[Waaldo]

5 years later....

[smelltheglove]

didnt the nazis unintentionally debunk that one?

[Fuzzzie]

yeah, why are we seeing an article from 2007?!

[Spectral]

yeah, why are we seeing an article from 2007?!

Because people forward E-mails to each other, and people that have certain cognitive blindspots read them and think, "holy fuck, this information is new and relevant!".

[BoysBoysBoys]

This is fairly well known.

Even though there is a 1% difference, thousands of genetic information can be altered in that 1% changing a lot of things.

[v2prwsmb45yhuq3wj23vpjk]

We've known races are different since forever. How can you look at two people with different skin colors and not go "hmm, something's different between those two people"?

The question is whether the differences are significant. They are for some things, like disease, but for most things they aren't.

[Ryme]

I thought this would've been common sense? I would find it alarming that in the evolution model, genetic differences would not occur between races.

[Fuzzzie]

Because people forward E-mails to each other, and people that have certain cognitive blindspots read them and think, "holy fuck, this information is new and relevant!".

Oh. well, fair enough..

[starlord]

what they ended up finding out was that genetic differences within so-called races are just as great as between them.

[Deleted]

Because people forward E-mails to each other, and people that have certain cognitive blindspots read them and think, "holy fuck, this information is new and relevant!".

Like my grandparents believing 10-year old GIFs are the height of 21th century technology.

[mypally]

23 pairs of chromosomes. x and y are different by at least a whole 50%, that means that men and women are at the very least over 1% different (.5 out of 46). So ya, not really sure what the big deal is here, a white man will have a more similar DNA map to a black man then a white women.

Also, old.

[Spectral]

I thought this would've been common sense? I would find it alarming that in the evolution model, genetic differences would not occur between races.

Indeed, that'd submarine pretty much everything we know about evolutionary diversity and how it comes about if populations that were mostly isolated from each other for tens of thousands of years had no detectable genetic differences. We'd have to seriously consider creationist answers if that were the case.

[Deleted]

I thought this would've been common sense? I would find it alarming that in the evolution model, genetic differences would not occur between races.

The thing is, human "races" are not races at all. Vast majority of humanity has in its blood ancestry from all over the planet, and what we perceive as races are merely phenotypes favored in certain regions due to cultural or aesthetic norms. That's why in some places you can observe a whole spectrum of "races" between the European white and African "black".

[Theherooftheday]

So now we are forced to ask what race is the best and what is the worst? That 1% difference can account for a lot of changes. So maybe there is a proper purpose for prejudice to exist in this world. Maybe prejudice exist for a good reason because it's hard wired into us to judge good races from lower races.

[Spectral]

Like my grandparents believing 10-year old GIFs are the height of 21th century technology.

Yeah, there seems like more more than a little overlap between folks that love dopey old GIFs and people that believe every E-mail forward they get.

[Deleted]

to be honest to be a scientist now days do you get it from your candy bucket or something. Considering they find out the MOST obvious things in the world like race diffrence. Dogs dont all look alike why would we look alike then.

[Spectral]

old news, really old, same thing with genders but there are a certain groups that would like to hide it for further unification of the world

Can you provide an example of any of those groups?

[TEHPALLYTANK]

The sky is blue, water is wet, fire is hot. Look at me I'm amazing for stating bits of information that are easily determined through simple observation!

That is my impression of the OP, seeking attention by stating useless information. Race is more than skin deep, your body is determined by your genetic code, trying to ignore that is just plain stupid. I hardly see how it is discrimination to say "That person is not the same as this one". What I don't understand is why people care if their bodies are unequal. All these other differences are the same to me as someone saying it is discrimination that men cannot get pregnant. Should people be upset that men and women are unequal in their ability to bear children? The whole point is absurd.

[semaphore]

Common sense that's unworthy of its own article. I'd say don't misinterpret it, but that's probably a forlorn hope.

old news, really old, same thing with genders but there are a certain groups that would like to hide it for further unification of the world

You're confusing equality for sameness. Most people don't consider every race and gender to be "the same".