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garbagetime | 3 years ago

> Black people as a whole have more genetic diversity within themselves than every other race.

Would you mind explaining this in more detail?

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orthoxerox|3 years ago

Black people are the "original" humans, all other races descend from much smaller groups of humans that moved out of Africa and colonized the rest of the globe (plus some admixture from extant Homo species).

So a bunch of alleles have never left Africa in sufficient quantities to persist in non-Black populations. And this probably applies to ADoS Blacks, too, since their Black ancestors were bought from the same entrepots in Western Africa.

prawn|3 years ago

For anyone else unfamiliar with the term: ADoS appears to be "American Descendants of Slavery".

garbagetime|3 years ago

I doubt that any serious racists consider that there is some single "black race".

Nonetheless, as far as I can tell, you're presenting the case that there are significant genetic differences between black races and other races, in which case: why can't some of those alleles code for intelligence, and why can't that result in a difference in average intelligence?

tchaffee|3 years ago

It's trivial to find an African person with more genetic similarity to an Irish person than he has in common with a different African person. Genetic diversity in Africa is massive. Think of the various Pygmy people as just one example.