I disagree completely, Goldie.
Anytime you prostitute scientific inquiry to politics, and sociological goals of 'making a better world'... you are just ASKING for stunted science, governmental Czars of 'political correctness', and CENTURIES of trouble for free thought and rational inquiry.
Scientific theories will rise and fall by the weight of evidence establishing or disproving their claims, by testability... and have no need for a super-layer of politics and 'P. C. right-thinking' to clamp down on them.
Besides, to apply any kind of 'racial' conclusion to this evidence would just be plain SILLY. The evidence doesn't lend itself to any such claim --- that would be pure specious bunk.
For another interesting example, taken from modern genetic study of man:
There is more genetic variety with the human population of the continent of Africa... then between the populations there and human populations in the rest of the world.
That is taken as evidence that humans originally evolved on the continent of Africa... and so have had longer to differentiate their populations, to diverge genetically, on that continent then elsewhere.
An interesting result of this observed greater amount of gene variability there, would be that you and I, for example, or any OTHER two individuals from outside the continent of Africa, are statistically likely to have GREATER genetic differences between the two of us... then EITHER of us is likely to have between ourselves and any individual plucked at random from the continent of Africa.
None of this has anything to do with 'race', which is a fairly silly concept from the point-of-view of science anyway.
'Race' for humans is mostly what one sees on the OUTSIDE (mostly the visible concentration of two different UV protecting pigments in the skin, and a few other very minor visible characteristics), and has NOTHING to do with the amount of genetic difference, or commonality, between people.
It's like focusing on a few grains of sand out of MILLIONS... and pretending that those few grains are all that matters. It's silly. |
