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The difference between populations and races
Both races and gravity are distinguishable by their respective general properties rather than by specific traits that may be associated with them.Monique said:What do you mean to say?hitssquad said:Races are distinguishable by their respective distinct general factors of individual heritable population traits.
Racial classification has nothing intrinsically to do with skin color, just as gravity has nothing intrinsically to do with falling bodies.
Monique said:Susceptibility-to-disease distribution is also an individual heritable population trait.hitssquad said:individual heritable population traits ... such as ... susceptibility-to-disease distribution
The http://www.tall.org/clubs/ny/tcnyc/ [Broken] is such a population and, on the grounds that it is grouped based on a distinguishable trait rather than on a general factor of heritable traits, it is not a race. Mensa, for the same reason that it is grouped based on a distinguishable trait rather than on a general factor of heritable traits, is also a population which is not a race.Monique said:I guess you mean to say that races may be classified upon traits that are either completely present or completely absent in a population.
Norwegians and Nigerians are classifiable as separate races, and this is because each possesses a distinguishable general factor of heritable traits.Monique said:Norwegians are all white and Nigerians are all black.
The Nigerian, Somalian, Norwegian and Irish population are all classifiable as individually distinguishable races according to that definition of possessions of distinguishable general factors of heritable traits.Monique said:You may have defined distinct populations, but it says nothing about the differences between Nigerians and Somalians or Norwegians and Irish.
The Irish and Norwegian populations constitute distinguishable races, and this is because they differ in terms of general heritable population traits. The populations of eight-year-old students from two different given elementary schools and classified within the span of any given school year do not constitute different races, and this is at least partly because those two populations are not breeding and hence cannot be said to have heritable traits.Why are the Irish not a different race than the Norwegians?
No matter how deep, traits as markers cannot distinguish races. Races are populations distinguishable by their respective general factors of heritable markers in comparison with those of other populations.Monique said:There may be markers hidden deeper than the skin that distinguish them.hitssquad said:Racial classification has nothing intrinsically to do with skin color
Population describes groups of individuals that are not necessarily distinguishable by their general factors of heritable traits (and, hence, are only necessarily distinguishable by anything other than general factors of heritable traits such as locations in space and time; specific hair color; specific age or age range; specific hobbies or hobby range; specific hair color or hair color range; specific height or height range; etc.; i.e., the http://www.tall.org/clubs/ny/tcnyc/ [Broken] does not constitute a race). Races are subsets of populations that are distinguishable by their respective general factors of heritable traits.Monique said:Population is the word to be used, not race.
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