"Mark Addinall" <addinall@no-spam> wrote in message
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> right@no-spam (Andrew D) wrote in message
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> > In article <246279a.0306190229.50950328@no-spam>,
> > addinall@no-spam (Mark Addinall) wrote:
> >
> > >right@no-spam (Andrew D) wrote in message
> > news:<right-1906030918020001@no-spam>...
> > >> In article <246279a.0306172206.10527916@no-spam>,
> > >> addinall@no-spam (Mark Addinall) wrote:
> > >>
> > >> [snip]
> > >> >What can we say now about the biology of race differences? Looking
at
> > >> >all the evidence, there are none. Demographers, politicians, and
> > >> >social scientists may want to continue using "race" to sort people,
> > >> >but as a biological concept it has no meaning. Human beings (Homo
> > >> >sapiens) are genetically a relatively homogeneous species. If
> > >> >Europeans were to disappear overnight, the genetic composition of
the
> > >> >species would hardly change. About 75 percent of known genes are the
> > >> >same in all humans. The remaining 25 percent are known to exist in
> > >> >more than one form, but all the forms can be found in all groups,
> > >> >though sometimes in different proportions. Another way to say this
is
> > >> >that, because of the extent of interbreeding that has happened among
> > >> >human populations over time,....
> > >>
> > >> Interbreeding between what?
> > >
> > >I think it is rather obvious from the text, that the interbreeding
> > >referred to is the mixing of geographically diverse groups of the same
> > >species. Homo.
> >
> > In ornithology, I believe "geographically diverse groups of the same
> > species" are referred to as different "races".
>
> Your belief system does have a point here?
>
It's for the birds.
He seems to be arguing that Tony Blair (London) and
George Bush (Texas) are of different races! 8^o
> Mark Addinall.
>
> >
> > Andy D.
> >
> > "I'm a great speller - but a hopless tpyist!"
Muck Addinall, the last surviving specimen of Homo Defectus, wrote
in <246279a.0306190229.50950328@no-spam>:
> "Andrew D" wrote:
> > Mark Addinall wrote:
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> > > Another way to say this
> > > is that, because of the extent of interbreeding that has happened
> > > among human populations over time,....
> >
> > Interbreeding between what?
>
> I think it is rather obvious from the text, that the interbreeding
> referred to is the mixing of geographically diverse groups of the
> same species. Homo.
Now *there's* a mealy-mouthed avoidance of the word "race".
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Ned
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