The extracts from the book no doubt the expose the fraud and myth that the "Caucasoid" race is and further shows that it is indeed social, political and driven by ideology and *NOT* science. Notice how the author exposes the contradictions in how Ethiopians are classified vs Afro-Americans. A scientific basis for a Caucasian race doesn't exist and never did.
The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography By Martin W. Lewis, Kären Wigen Contributor Kären Wigen Edition: illustrated Published by University of California Press, 1997 ISBN 0520207432, 9780520207431 p.120-122
Posted by MindoverMatter718 (Member # 15400) on :
quote: The most rigorous investigation to date of global genetic patterns.- L. Luca Cavalli Sforza, Paulo Mennozzi, and Alberto Piazza's massive History and Geography of Human Genes - finds that racial categories are genetically meaningless . The authors conclude that while one can identify " 'cluster of populations' exhibiting genetic similarities," such clusters can not be identified with races. " In fact, their painstaking genetic mapping and multivariate analysis fairly demolish the familiar "races of humanity". For example, the northern Chinese are shown to be more related to northern Europeans than they are to southern Chinese. And Africans, far from forming a uniform race, actually show more genetic diversity than do all of the world's non African peoples put together.
Posted by Sundjata (Member # 13096) on :
"For example, the northern Chinese are shown to be more closely related to northern Europeans than they are to southern Chinese."
Huh?? What page number is he citing?
Posted by akoben (Member # 15244) on :
If racial categories are genetically meaningless then I take it he no longer groups North Africans as "Caucasians" in this book? Which, if true, pretty much contradicts his entire life's work. lol
Posted by prmiddleeastern (Member # 14038) on :
the "myth" has not been exposed, there is human variation in people.
Posted by Sundjata (Member # 13096) on :
^^Which is why discrete monotypes outside of the human race in general (as it concerns humans) are discredited. If we were to scrutinize every variant then there would be a virtual infinite regression of "racial" labeling (which of course doesn't stop some people, as witnessed in that pointless "Somalid" thread)..
Posted by prmiddleeastern (Member # 14038) on :
But not all humans are the same, there are variations in thm.
Posted by Sundjata (Member # 13096) on :
^^So.. Siblings have "variation" between them..
Posted by prmiddleeastern (Member # 14038) on :
^Yes, and some have "more" variation than others.
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