Well, it's pretty obvious, isn't it?

I'm Choctaw with a dash of Irish. My girlfriend is some variety of African-American / Vietnamese. What race would our children be?

Aside from "gorgeous," of course

By "artificial construct," the article does mean man-made, by the way. As in race is social, with no real biological meaning. Sort of like caste in India.

How is this news?

"Chair" is also something we define. Or "rock". Or "12 african-american men, standing on top of a boat with 3 sails, holding jigsaw puzzles".

Of course "Race" is an artificial construct.

I don't care what you call it: race, group, sub-population etc. Fact is that by multi locus sequence analysis alone you can tell with > 90% certainty where on Earth a person (or his/her ancestors) comes from.

I don't get the theory that we have been artificially bred by an alien species.

If such a species can create us then they will have the ability to grow us in numbers for either slavery or food. It will be alot quicker than waiting for our population to grow naturally to get the numbers they are after.
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If we are just an experiement to see how we evolve on this planet then that is another matter all together.

Can you imagine, we could all be part of some long living alien child's school project.

Or, this could be one big disinfo of a story itself. To make everybody think that they are equal. Propaganda science at its finest, funded by TPTB's finest.

If I dig up a dead black guys bones and a dead white guys bones, a forensic anthropologist is going to be able to tell me with some accuracy that one guy is of "european" descent and the other is of "african" descent. So there ARE differences.

Just saying....

so many people seem to ignore that what is stated above is optimism.

while discrimination is the biggest thing that needs to go out the window right now. i could leave the crooks in power for a few years if people would just love one another

that doesnt mean you should ignore other sciences that DO point to each race being different from another.

this is in no way bad, it just shows that even though we came from a common ancester, we still adapted to the environment they were given and became a sub-species of homo sapiens.

african americans, as one example, contain a muscle no other race does in the lower back, and contributes to running. its a human evolution, and physically gives them the upper hand when it comes to run speed, or power, and is just a natural adaptation

again, there are also diseases which only affect certain races. sickle cell anemia is exclusively diagnosed in african americans as well and is only the most famous example. some only affect the asian population, some only affect mexican, some only affect jews (hebrews) and so on, and so on

we shouldnt look down on any race, because we are all different, and because we are so different, we only become that much more powerful when we team up. if we truly cared about people we wouldnt hate them for being different, we would let them use their differences to contribute to the whole, and vice-versa with the whole contributing to the one

if we were raised to be slaves op, i think they are going to realize the human race is a loooooot craftier than they gave them credit for/ expected. this i promise.

Genetically, humans are one of the least diverse species on the planet. Only about 70,000+ years ago the entire species was reduced to at most maybe 5000 individuals, and maybe as few as about 1000 of us. We managed to survive and flourish, but all nearly 7 billion of us today are descended from those few people. If you take the two most genetically diverse humans on the planet and compared their DNA, it would be more alike than an average sampling of most other species taken from even close-by populations.

Nothing new here, ask a biologist and they'll tell you even species are only a artificial construct, and at times a very blurry one, and ultimately a temporary one.