> > > > I'm curious: Do those specific genetic differences cover 100% of the > population of a given race and exclude other races? Could you do a blind > DNA test on a person and with 100% certainty decide what race that person > is? What if that person was multiracial?
No you cannot determine race based on a specific genetic profile. To the extent that race is real it is a population phenomena. The frequency of different genes in a group of individuals. >> I don't think he was denying there were differences. His point was that > there are so many different human traits (IOW, genetic differences) that > vary within races and span across to other races, it's not helpful to > package an arbitrary set of these characteristics (which just happen to > correlate some/most of the time) as a race in the common sense (with all the > social/economic/political division that it entails). In other words, he > wasn't denying genetics, just rejecting the term "race" in its common sense, > which has greater connotations and divisions than just meaning the small > genetic differences. > > The point is that in the abscence of politics, race would be an uncontroversial > scientific notion with some value. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
