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reply posted on 15-9-2007 @ 07:24 PM by chickeneater
reply to post by Essan


Yeah, I agree. And based on the reproductive rate of caucasians vs. asians vs. hispanics and blacks, I'd say the final race is a human that's 50% asian, 30% hispanics, 10% black, 5% albinos and 5% caucasian.



reply posted on 16-9-2007 @ 07:08 AM by madnessinmysoul
reply to post by chickeneater



race doesn't exist. it's a construct of the human mind based on superficial features. there is more genetic difference between a tall man and a short man than there is between a white man and a black man.


reply posted on 16-9-2007 @ 04:17 PM by chickeneater
reply to post by madnessinmysoul




I doubt genetic traits that are inherent in each race are "superficial features".


reply posted on 16-9-2007 @ 05:36 PM by Stormdancer777
What a great question, since some think evolution is caused, by catastrophes and earth changes, how would this fit into the picture?

Global Warming Is Spurring Evolution, Study Says
news.nationalgeographic.com...

Catastrophic Events in the History of Life: Toward a New Understanding of Mass Extinctions in the Fossil Record - Part I

www.jyi.org...

My guess would be less likely to survive because we are more ill equiped then our ancestors, much weaker, with a weaker immune system.

Therefore,

to evolve and survive we must adapt to our environment to fit the circumstances.

www.e-drexler.com...


reply posted on 16-9-2007 @ 06:29 PM by masqua
Brains vary according to this study by J. Philippe Rushton and Arthur R. Jensen fron the University of Western Ontario and Berkley, respectively.

Thisd study seems to back up what you say.

Some excerps;

The Worldwide Pattern of IQ Scores. East Asians average higher on IQ tests than Whites, both in the U. S. and in Asia, even though IQ tests were developed for use in the Euro-American culture. Around the world, the average IQ for East Asians centers around 106; for Whites, about 100; and for Blacks about 85 in the U.S. and 70 in sub-Saharan Africa.

*snip*

Race Differences and the Out-of-Africa theory of Human Origins. East Asian-White-Black differences fit the theory that modern humans arose in Africa about 100,000 years ago and expanded northward. During prolonged winters there was evolutionary selection for higher IQ created by problems of raising children, gathering and storing food, gaining shelter, and making clothes

www.news-medical.net...


The outcry that this study provoked became front page news and calls for Rushdon's resignation were heated. However, he remains on the faculty at Western.

psychology.uwo.ca...

Some more hints...

Genetic markers for proposed gene-disease associations vary in frequency across populations, but their biological impact on the risk for common diseases may usually be consistent across traditional 'racial' boundaries.

link


As the Human Genome Project progressed over the last decade, many on the Left felt the heat of renewed interest in racial differences—they could not be so easily dismissed once we could look inside the genetic code. As a result they have renewed their efforts to deny that racial differences exist in any form other than simply the color of one's skin or the shape of one's lips. However, the denial of racial differences has been based on the specious premise that race is defined by distinct boundaries—a premise that no one but a scientific illiterate could entertain.

home.comcast.net...


As I read through these pages, I found that the the research is still in its infancy and yet beseiged by politically motivated nay-sayers.

I still don't know where I stand on this yet, but I can see that chickeneater may have a point.




reply posted on 19-9-2007 @ 04:06 PM by madnessinmysoul
reply to post by chickeneater



um... you haven't stumped anyone, you've just setup a strawman.
so, in reality you just threw out a logical fallacy and claimed victory.

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