Poll: Races

[AdamAK]

The visual differences that people use divide humans into races in fact are only the result of a tiny fraction of the human genome. Humans are too genetically similar for 'races' to exist.

There is a species of monkeys whose DNA is only 2% different compared to humans. 2% Is a tiny fraction, hence they are human. Right?

There are races, and while they do not differ a lot, it doesn't mean they don't exist. Does it matter what race one belongs to? It doesn't, in my opinion... unless you're a Hobbit [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis], in which case you are probably inferior.

 

[Matronadena]

on a genetic level, as has been pointed out.. nope....Humans are in the order of Primates branching into the Superfamily of Hominoidea, then the Family Hominidae to Subfamily then to Homininae down even more to whats called a tribe with the name Hominini, sub tribe is Hominina
of the genus Homo to form the SPECIES Homo sapiens to finally the sub species of Homo sapien sapiens.

From there we bottle neck severely " which also suggests how close we came to being wiped out several times in our history"

what separates me.. a nearly 6ft blond blue eyed Woman, daughter of Scathach ( a warrior queen from skye) and Somerled....and a 5 ft tall pygmy of zulu decent is less than what separates white rice from wild brown rice

but that small, and I mean SMALL mutational difference between what is called race are nothing more than secondary traits....not even enough to say Negroloid, Mongoloid, etc etc are a sub species classification. ( hence why that classification scale has been thrown out with the advancement in genetic research.

 

[latenightapplepie]

The visual differences that people use divide humans into races in fact are only the result of a tiny fraction of the human genome. Humans are too genetically similar for 'races' to exist.

There is a species of monkeys whose DNA is only 2% different compared to humans. 2% Is a tiny fraction, hence they are human. Right?

I've read of chimps' DNA being 96% or 95% similar to humans, while I've heard of the statistic of just 0.01% difference in genes between any two random human beings. I'm no expert, but the people at the Human Genome Project are. So I believe them.

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/minorities.shtml

DNA studies do not indicate that separate classifiable subspecies (races) exist within modern humans. While different genes for physical traits such as skin and hair color can be identified between individuals, no consistent patterns of genes across the human genome exist to distinguish one race from another. There also is no genetic basis for divisions of human ethnicity. People who have lived in the same geographic region for many generations may have some alleles in common, but no allele will be found in all members of one population and in no members of any other.

 

[Mr Inconsistent]

I thought it was about car races

Anyway, I say they exist in a way: There are different species of frogs (for instance), and I think they might be able to cross-breed. So yes, there are different variations of humans, but that doesn't matter one bit.

haha, car races *sigh*

 

[Perticular Elk]

I think the appropiate term would be "breeds".