Race and a polymophic genome map
Sunday, June 21st, 2009Besides cultural and diet differences in people, we distinguish each other generally by phenotype related to race; hair color, skin color, nose size, ear size etc.
Is it tacky to identify each other by genetic differences? Is it all apart of subconscious discrimination? We all share the same genes to the 10^-4 degree, why focus on the differences when we are so similar. I’d like to think that this line of thinking is preoccupied with the fear of treating each other without equality rather than keeping an objective view of genetic diversity.
A determined effort to find the mutable changes we have gone through as a species would reveal a story that hasn’t been told yet on the development and acceleration of human civilization on evolution.
The idea that increased genetic knowlage will lead to reproduction to select certain traits while eliminating others belonging to supposed undesired races only presumposes that people use their brain when looking for a partner which is an anecdotally false observation I’ve noticed throughout my life.