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Originally posted by Doc
Lord.
It's really not hard to understand.
People differ phenotypically in all traits, from skin color to hair type to eye color to height to weight to mouth shape to chest size. These differences occur on a spectrum.
The concept of race has no biological basis because there's nothing concrete about it. Races are defined differently from culture to culture. The choice in what phenotypes define what races and what phenotypes have no relevance is completely arbitrary, as is the the blurry and undefined cut off points in the spectrum of those phenotypes. Hence people, from biologists to regular folk, not being able to concretely define what phenotypes and what ranges make a person of a certain race; hence people being able to find many counter examples for every attempt to make those definitions.
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It's not arbitrary, and that what you're missing. When White people "rediscovered" Africa, did they find people with blond hair blue eyes? I doubt it, because everyone with those genes died out because they could not survive in that environment. They are now two different races, and that is concrete.
Why do we accept animals are different but not humans? I'm sure if butteries migrated to different environment they would start to look similar to butterflies that already live their over time. We have common ancestors as Gorillas, but are we gorillas? No.
