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re: How do you explain the origin of the various human races scientifically?
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:07 am to fr33manator
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:07 am to fr33manator
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Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:08 am to LoveThatMoney
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There are only 3 different "races": Mongoloid, Caucasoid, and Negroid.
How did these 3 distinct races develop?
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:09 am to rebeloke
Lolop
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:09 am to FT
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:09 am to rebeloke
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Hattiesburg, MS
Not surprising.
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:10 am to rebeloke
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How did these 3 distinct races develop?
Mutant genes
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:13 am to BIGDAB
So you would estimate that all humans came from a common lineage and that mutation occurred causing these 3 predominant distinctions?
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:14 am to rebeloke
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If we had been evolving for so long wouldn't there be a dominant race by now or at least much more uniformity? It just seems strange that there are so many different races of one species and they are so different in appearance.
Don't get too hung up on appearance. We're really not that different at all.
Two randomly chosen Koreans may be genetically as different as a Korean and an Italian. Any ethnic group contains 85% of the human genetic diversity of the world. Genetic data shows that no matter how population groups are defined, two people from the same population group are about as different from each other as two people from any two different population groups.
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:18 am to rebeloke
Gotta love evolution debates, people bringing crayons to a gun fight. The first mistake you've made is a very common one no both sides thinking there is such a thing as a superior species. People take the Survival of the Fittest phrase and run wild with it. Evolution IS NOT Linear Biological Advancement marching ever forward to some mythical standard until we're like Gods. Evolution IS life finding a way to fill/exploit new niches in the environment.
The goal/destination of evolution/speciation is biological diversity, not biological advancement.
Now that we have a proper frame of reference for what evolution does and doesn't lead to, why do you think that groups of men isolated for millennia lead to variation within the species? The Blacks and Asians pissed God off so he made the White Devil to get back at them?
The goal/destination of evolution/speciation is biological diversity, not biological advancement.
Now that we have a proper frame of reference for what evolution does and doesn't lead to, why do you think that groups of men isolated for millennia lead to variation within the species? The Blacks and Asians pissed God off so he made the White Devil to get back at them?
This post was edited on 8/19/14 at 11:20 am
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:20 am to RoyMcavoy
Hence compatibility with breeding, yet I am hung up on the fact that the longer we have gone the further the diversification. According to evolutionary theory should one or the other have a competitive advantage and win out?
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:21 am to rebeloke
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So you would estimate that all humans came from a common lineage and that mutation occurred causing these 3 predominant distinctions?
I was half joking, but going off how similar human genetic make up is, I would say it's a strong possibility we all share basically the same genetic makeup. Whether that's from mutation or something else I wouldn't know.
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:23 am to rebeloke
Because our heavenly creator wanted it that way.
But you want a scientific answer, I dont have one because nothing makes sense really which is why i just stick with my first answer
But you want a scientific answer, I dont have one because nothing makes sense really which is why i just stick with my first answer
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:24 am to rebeloke
Creation.
God created Adam and Eve FIRST, not ONLY.
Also when Pangaea split it helped keep the different people in their respective places.
God created Adam and Eve FIRST, not ONLY.
Also when Pangaea split it helped keep the different people in their respective places.
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:26 am to rebeloke
According to science, there arent different races.
This post was edited on 8/19/14 at 11:27 am
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:30 am to Pectus
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Nothing about my post does this at all. I approached it at a level anyone can understand. You're talking to an educator here. I know what I'm doing.
Sorry. I wasn't directing that at you but to the others posting laughing emoticons and calling the guy stupid.
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I do like comparing them to dog breeds, because that's exactly what ethnicities are. Would it be better if I used horse breeds? Or cow breeds? It's all the same. The OP didn't care about inherited behaviors. They only cared about the external disparate look of humans from across the globe.
But again, dog breeds specifically tell you how an animal is going to behave, its potential for learning, and its purpose in life. We do not in any accepted circumstance use race as a predisposition for behavior, potential, or purpose. Even if you're not trying to make that implication, the audience especially as one who is uneducated in the matters of evolution and genetics and race will likely attach a teleological appeal to your statement.
A "What can I take from this information and how can it be applied?" inference when comparing races to dog breeds can lead to stereotyping, racism and bias thinking.
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:31 am to rebeloke
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According to evolutionary theory should one or the other have a competitive advantage and win out?
And where are these different races of men competing with each other for dominance of local resources if the conditions that lead to their divergence was isolation from each other? It is believed that we out competed Neanderthals into extinction in Europe, but you didn't typically run into many Asians or Africans there back in the day.
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:31 am to rebeloke
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Hence compatibility with breeding, yet I am hung up on the fact that the longer we have gone the further the diversification. According to evolutionary theory should one or the other have a competitive advantage and win out?
No.
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:32 am to TigerinATL
I just find is interesting that on the one hand some say the differences are mutations and on the other they are niches.
Why is the goal of evolution diversification?
Why is the goal of evolution diversification?
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:33 am to rebeloke
Diversification increases a species' chance of survival.
Posted on 8/19/14 at 11:36 am to rebeloke
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So you would estimate that all humans came from a common lineage and that mutation occurred causing these 3 predominant distinctions?
So we descended from 3 people who were all related?
We are all Alabamans...
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