Ukiachilia mbali hicho kitabu (ambacho kimejaa nadharia za kisiasa), sayansi inasemaje kuhusu utofauti wa race za binadamu?
Race ni nini?
Na unajuaje kitabu kimejaa nadharia za kisiasa? Umekisoma?
Angalia wasomi wanasema "race is not a biologically meaningful concept".
Ni superficial, social construct.
Soma hapa wataalamu wamefafanua kwa kuangalia DNA.
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Race is not a biologically meaningful category
As the statement discusses, one of the most important insights from studies of human DNA across the world has been that the concept of “race” is not a useful or accurate term to describe patterns of biological variation that exist. Biological variation—whether it be genetic or in our physical traits—may be used socially and politically for categorizing people (e.g. “white”, “black”, “Hispanic”) but does not actually align with “pure” or discrete groups.
The authors of the statement note:
“The groupings of people that exist in our species are socially-defined, dynamic, and continually evolving — amalgamations of socially- and biologically-interacting individuals with constantly-shifting boundaries, reflecting the myriad ways that individuals, families, and other clusters of people create ties, move, trade, mate, reproduce, and shift their social identities and affiliations through time.
Race does not capture these histories or the patterns of human biological variation that have emerged as a result. Nor does it provide a clear picture of genetic ancestry.”
So while people think they’re using biology to classify people into races, the traits that we typically consider are arbitrary and socially informed and the patterns in those traits don’t map onto racial groups the way people think they do.
Tina Lasisi, a Ph.D. student at Penn State University who helped write the statement, sums it up this way “We aren’t denying that patterns of genetic variation exist, in fact that’s precisely what most of us study. We are however saying that race is not a useful framework for discussing or investigating human biological variation and continuing to use it stalls science more than it advances it.”
Professor Ewan Birney, Director of EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute, who was not involved with writing this statement, commented to me that “It is sadly all too easy to think race is somehow the everyday manifestation of human genetics but the truth is far more complex and interesting. Our collective genetic history is messier, richer and more complex than concepts of race; race itself is more a cultural phenomenon and less genetics than most people realize.”
Race is real
Another important point that this statement raised is that “while human racial groups are not biological categories, ‘race’ as a social reality — as a way of structuring societies and experiencing the world — is very real. Dr. Adam Rutherford, another geneticist and author who was not involved in writing this statement, agrees with this point.