JQPublic1
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1956? The latest edition of Montagu's seminal work was printed in 1998 while he was still alive. If any new discoveries had impacted anything in his book by that time he would have addressed it in the latest edition.Well the human race is distictly different fromDifferent Species i can accept: but race?...nahhhhh! Besides...Euro-peons are part Neanderthal. Unmixed Blacks are the only true humans...perhaps that is why black genes are dominant among human kind...There is no black or white race...both are social constructs...
Well Geez. Then the 14 SPECIES of sparrows in any birding book are just "social contracts" as well -- right? Can't blindside science and claim victory.
Until the science/encyclopedia version changes -- don't bug me with sermons about there are no distinctions such as race.
Neanderthals and other primates. I suppose the Neanderthals and other hominids could be seen as different races. But my inspiration on the subject emanates from objective anthropologists such as Ashley Montagu, touted as the foremost expert on the subject of race....or lack thereof.
"His first book MAN'S MOST DANGEROUS MYTH: The Fallacy of Race (1942, 6th ed. 1998), which across the last 56 years has demolished for the majority of his colleagues everywhere the scientific credibility of the very concept of race, as well as launched the burgeoning worldwide movements for ethnic liberation."
Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race
Yeah -- 1956 was WAY before we had the DNA tools to even GLIMPSE into human lineage and which areas of the world were pockets of similarity. And another poster just gave you dozens of current scientific references on the issue. We're not talking about Neanderthals. We're talking about tracing lines back to places of origin and ACTUAL biophysical differences that can now be MEASURED with DNA tools and modern anthropology methods.
And the genetic origins if which you speak are centered on haplogroups.
Haplogroup
A haplogroup, is a combination of alleles at different chromosomes regions that are closely linked and that tend to be inherited together. It is a group of individual organisms which, in terms of molecular evolution, share a common ancestor – a genetic line of descent demonstrated by a particular single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) mutation.
But due to the Diaspora and intense interracial sexual activity between Jews and
Gentiles living in the same regions the haplogroup nexus might not be as efficient for origin identification as we think they are. Plus...to begin with... Jews were not known to be a homogenous group. ...which makes perfect sense considering it started as a religion in a region where people of all ethnic backgrounds traveled, traded,warred and
Seduced each other.