Is race real or is it just a human invention?
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.
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.
Some traits are selected for, some are drift, and some are lost due to founder effect. Degree of skin pigmentation is strongly selected for, and does converge based on irradiance; other traits vary within a population (see above for the congolese groups) and, where they are fixed, tend to be fixed by drift or founder effect.
New World humans show strong founder influences, so comparing New World tribes (some of the least genetically diverse on the planet) with African tribes ( the most genetically diverse) is a little bit like comparing the members of a band field trip to the members of the entire rest of the school district.
or the rest of the Australoids.
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Their hungry thirsty roots??
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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.
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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?We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots??
http://jakobvirgil.blogspot.com/
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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.
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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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