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Quote by: Gods_Mercenary  I don't find their claims incredible, especially if one accepts that the concept of "race" is an artificial creation for the purpose of justifying things like slavery or colonialism, as they do.
Note that they don't discredit the idea that variations can exist between separated breeding groups, just that these variations are based on race. |
The big problem with their argument: They may claim that “there is greater variation within "racial" groups than between them. ", but we can see first hand that this is not so. I listed physical differences on the former page……
If, despite their being “greater variation within racial groups then between them”, there are such significant physical variations, then the “greater variation within then between” mantra does NOT refute the possible mental differences either.
Besides that, there are multiple refutations of the study on the web. I will post some here:
Fighting the mantra, “People vary more within the groups than vary between groups” « Anthropology.net
Quite simply the flaws are thus:
a-despite this “greater variation within then between”, people are genentically closest to members of their own race in nearly all cases.
b-The 6% came about in the period in which the races separated geographically. In that time frame culture and civilization developed. So, I would say it is amazing how important that 6% can be.
c-The study was based on the study of blood-types not the entire genome.