Dan G <xtropian@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Link to Friday's Radiolab (November 28) :
>
>http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/11/28
>
>There are four segments here, that you can listen to, online:
>
>--
>Race
>The U.S. Census defines five races, and an "other" category. When the
>human genome was first fully mapped in 2000, Bill Clinton, Craig
>Venter, and Francis Collins took the stage and pronounced that "The
>concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis."
>Great words spoken with great intentions.
What intentions?
>But what does that mean and
>where does it leave us? It doesn't seem to have wiped out our evolving
>conversation about race.
People can talk about all sorts of nonexistent things.
>Race Doesn't Exist. Or Does It?
>Tony Frudakis and his company DNA Print Genomics believe they can
>identify hair, eye, and skin color and point to the genetic ancestry
>of test subjects by scanning their DNA.
That's nice. But what does that have to do with five races and an
"other" category.
There is no question that it is possibly to divide up human beings in
all sorts of ways. "Race" is a claim of a PARTICULAR way to divide up
human beings that is genetic and significant.
>NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce
>goes to investigate, using a sample of Jad's DNA to find out what they
>could discover. The results? Surprising to all. We found another
>surprised DNA test subject, Wayne Joseph, a high school principal and
>writer on the topic of race.
Why would a high school principal have the slightest qualification to
discuss the science of race
lojbab
Bob LeChevalier - artificial linguist; genealogist
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