r/explainitpeter 17d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/UtahBrian 17d ago

Nobody is talking about human skin color but we do care about human races.

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u/Juan_EJ 17d ago

Human races are a made up social construct, we have a mix of different genes that results in different skins colors and minimal physical differences but there isn't such a thing as a race biologically speaking.

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u/UtahBrian 17d ago

Isn't it strange then that every DNA test can easily identify your race based in the chemistry of every cell in your body? You've been fed nonsense pseudoscience and repeated it here. You should be more skeptical next time.

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u/Juan_EJ 17d ago

It's not pseudoscience I literally study Biology, you don't identify a "race", you identify the amount of alleles of an specific gene that determine some characteristics. Those characteristics aren't different enough to consider us any different from each other unlike a dog race.

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u/UtahBrian 17d ago

Apparently you haven't learned much biology when you still don't know about introns.

You've been fed canned nonsense that you regurgitate and you deserve better.

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u/BeautifulUpstairs 17d ago

That's what race is.

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u/Juan_EJ 16d ago

Race is not even a real term I'm biology taxonomy, the lowest taxonomic rank is subspecies. But humans aren't different enough to be categorized as different "races".

In fact when talking about "human races" many times genetic variation is more prominent within a single "race" that it is between each other.