Theres No Scientific Basis for Race It's a Made-Up Label

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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-genetics-science-africa/


It's been used to define and separate people for millennia. But the concept of race is not grounded in genetics.

The four letters of the genetic code —A, C, G, and T—are projected onto Ryan Lingarmillar, a Ugandan. DNA reveals what skin color obscures: We all have African ancestors.

By Elizabeth Kolbert

In the first half of the 19th century, one of America’s most prominent scientists was a doctor named Samuel Morton. Morton lived in Philadelphia, and he collected skulls.

He wasn’t choosy about his suppliers. He accepted skulls scavenged from battlefields and snatched from catacombs. One of his most famous craniums belonged to an Irishman who’d been sent as a convict to Tasmania (and ultimately hanged for killing and eating other convicts). With each skull Morton performed the same procedure: He stuffed it with pepper seeds—later he switched to lead shot—which he then decanted to ascertain the volume of the braincase.

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1. Good article. Long but worth it. So-called racial traits are adaptations to climate, otherwise...

we're all just humans still in or out of Africa.