19 Aug 2012, 4:50 pm
wogaboo wrote:
Height is only on trait. And there is an enormous amount of height variation outside of Africa too.
There are a lot of differences other than height between the dinka and the Mbuti, but weren't you the one who wanted to classify race based on what people look like? You are grasping at straws.
19 Aug 2012, 4:52 pm
They look different, right? But they are basically the same people: same language, same geography, same religion. Before Belgians came along, they intermarried pretty freely.
19 Aug 2012, 10:44 pm
LKL wrote:
wogaboo wrote:
Height is only on trait. And there is an enormous amount of height variation outside of Africa too.
There are a lot of differences other than height between the dinka and the Mbuti, but weren't you the one who wanted to classify race based on what people look like? You are grasping at straws.
Like many nilo-saharan peoples, the Dinka have epicanthic folds and speak tonal languages.
What is the basis for claiming that the shape of the skull(and the facial bones) aren't neutral alleles and indicative of ancestry?
For example, there are NO (native)precolumbian peoples in tropical regions of the Americas with negroid features. The climate in equatorial South America is almost identical to that of equatorial Africa. The only people in the new world with negroid features are those whose ancestors came from Africa. Why do you suppose that is? That is my biggest qualm with the "convergent evolution" hypothesis for explaining the look of the Melanesians.
19 Aug 2012, 11:15 pm
20 Aug 2012, 6:52 am
20 Aug 2012, 12:01 pm
LKL wrote:
wogaboo wrote:
Height is only on trait. And there is an enormous amount of height variation outside of Africa too.
There are a lot of differences other than height between the dinka and the Mbuti, but weren't you the one who wanted to classify race based on what people look like? You are grasping at straws.
The Dinka and mbuti DO look alike. And I don't want to classify race based on what people look like per se, but if people are similar in ways we can see, it's only logical to think they are alike in ways we can't see too.
20 Aug 2012, 12:14 pm
wogaboo wrote:
LKL wrote:
wogaboo wrote:
Height is only on trait. And there is an enormous amount of height variation outside of Africa too.
There are a lot of differences other than height between the dinka and the Mbuti, but weren't you the one who wanted to classify race based on what people look like? You are grasping at straws.
The Dinka and mbuti DO look alike. And I don't want to classify race based on what people look like per se, but if people are similar in ways we can see, it's only logical to think they are alike in ways we can't see too.
They do not look the same to me. This is the issue I think. What people look like is subjective.
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20 Aug 2012, 12:38 pm
wogaboo wrote:
LKL wrote:
wogaboo wrote:
Height is only on trait. And there is an enormous amount of height variation outside of Africa too.
There are a lot of differences other than height between the dinka and the Mbuti, but weren't you the one who wanted to classify race based on what people look like? You are grasping at straws.
The Dinka and mbuti DO look alike. And I don't want to classify race based on what people look like per se, but if people are similar in ways we can see, it's only logical to think they are alike in ways we can't see too.
pure bull,
nothing, in the entire universe, is what you see, what you "see" is a model your brain constructs to make sense of what its senses tell it, it is often severely skewed under even mundane circumstances.
21 Aug 2012, 5:12 pm
wogaboo wrote:
LKL wrote:
wogaboo wrote:
Height is only on trait. And there is an enormous amount of height variation outside of Africa too.
There are a lot of differences other than height between the dinka and the Mbuti, but weren't you the one who wanted to classify race based on what people look like? You are grasping at straws.
The Dinka and mbuti DO look alike. And I don't want to classify race based on what people look like per se, but if people are similar in ways we can see, it's only logical to think they are alike in ways we can't see too.
'You people all look the same to me.'
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