israeliteknight <israeliteknight@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Of the 281,421,906 who participated in the 2000 US Census, NONE of
>them said they were not a member of a race
Probably because it wasn't an option on the form.
>Don't spend too much time listening to logjam, who's about the only
>other person on the entire planet who spouts such nonsense and who
>might agree with you.
Do you really need cites proving this silly claim wrong? How about
the geneticist Luca Cavalli-Sforza?
>The races are actually different SPECIES.
All of world of biological science disagrees with you.
>Blacks are a separate SPECIES from Asians,
Disproof: Tiger Woods (among others)
>who're a separate SPECIES from Eastern Europeans,
The percentage of Russians with Tatar blood is quite high.
>who're a separate SPECIES from Western Europeans, who're a different
>SPECIES from the British Isles, who're a different SPECIES from
>Spaniards.
Just think of all those people of each of your so-called "species"
that freely and productively interbreed.
>When we've managed to identify 22 THOUSAND different
>SPECIES of orchids,
which of course do NOT freely and productively interbreed. It's a lot
easier for plants to become separate species, since they don't move.
Once separated by enough distance through slow propagation over many
generations, they inherently have no reason to maintain interbreeding
capability, so they don't.
>we can certainly identify the many different SPECIES of "people", don't
you think?
If we could, we would. But in fact there is no basis to do so.
The genetic variation among human beings is far less than among most
species.
"The average pro****tion of nucleotide differences between a randomly
chosen pair of humans (i.e., average nucleotide diversity, or p) is
consistently estimated to lie between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 1,500. This
pro****tion is low compared with those of many other species, from
fruit flies to chimpanzees...." And 85% of that minimal variation
occurs within inhabitants of each continent.
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1435.html
See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28classification_of_human_beings%29
>The differences between these different SPECIES of orchids are minute
and you know this how?
Not only are there more species than there are in all the Mammalia,
there are more genera.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchids
>compared to the VAST differences between the "White Race" and the
>"black race".
There is no "white race" nor a "black race". And as stated, there are
no identifiable differences that hold across all members of any of the
various populations people have tried to identify as "races".
>25 African nations have average iq's lower than Koko the Gorilla,
No. But you obviously do.
>you're closer to the gorilla SPECIES than you are to the "White Race".
That would not follow even if true, since IQ has nothing to do with
breeding interfertility. After all, some human female had your kids,
before giving you the boot. Alas, if your kids prove fertile, that
means that nincompoop isn't a separate species. Though whence came
that strange orifice that noisome material exudes from is a mystery to
all biologists.
lojbab
Bob LeChevalier - artificial linguist; genealogist
lojbab@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lojban language www.lojban.org
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