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The Evolution Of Different Races (Is Race A Social Construct)

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Published on 21 Feb 2023 / In People & Blogs

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Longshanks
Longshanks 2 years ago

You're arguments are a little incoherent.
The definition of speciation is the inability to produce fertile offspring. Period. Sickle-cell is a gene mutation that conferred survivability against Malaria, so it stuck around. Different groups have other adaptations. These adaptations do not make them different species, because the matings of all the different "races" on Earth today can produce fertile offspring.

Race is a social construct. Truly. Did you know Europeans considered North and East Africans Caucasian? Social construct.

You didn't even mention how geography produced the socioeconomic and cultural differences we see today between Africans and Europeans.

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EuroGaNationalist
EuroGaNationalist 2 years ago

You’re arguments don’t touch mine at all, first of all I’m not saying that simply having a trait like sickle cell automatically makes someone a different race. It just developed specifically in one race because of how they adapted to their environment. And I’m not comparing race to species, I’m comparing it to breeds. Race being a social construct because of how societies overtime grouped people is all cope. You can biologically cluster people into different groups, that is not a social construct. Just because societies have their own classifications doesn’t change the fact that there are biological races.

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Longshanks
Longshanks 2 years ago

@EuroGaNationalist: so a "race" is like a "breed" of a human. Got it. What is a "biological race"? Is the origin and propagation of sickle cell, for example, genetic evidence of distinct "biological races"?

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EuroGaNationalist
EuroGaNationalist 2 years ago

@Longshanks: Sickle Cell itself doesn’t directly mean it’s the evidence of biological races. Sickle Cell is just a trait dominant in a specific race because different people isolated in certain areas for long periods of time develop a certain way. In this case, because Malaria is common in Africa, most sub Saharan Africans adapted traits to counter malaria which resulted in sickle cell. Foreshadowing that the different races developed differently and uniquely from each other.

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