[Mick]

First of all, I don't use the term "race" because it is a construct of white supremacists and broadcasts ignorance. There is ZERO difference between humans in terms of genome. There are obviously differences when it comes to genes in each individual human's genome, but that's it. Any attempt to separate people as one type or another is dangerous and has no place in an educated and civil society. This outdated and vile "race" construct facilitates what we call racism. The reality is people look how they look and are a product of their environments. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Yup, completely agree.  I read this article a few years ago in National Geographic.  I thought it was an excellent summary of humanity's origins in Africa, the subsequent diaspora and the fact that the greatest disparity in human genes exists in Africa between various Africans (and not between Africans and non-Africans), simply because humans have been in Africa considerably longer than any other place.  To quote the article, "There's more diversity in Africa than in all other continents combined."

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magaz...ce-africa/

[Mick]

First of all, I don't use the term "race" because it is a construct of white supremacists and broadcasts ignorance. There is ZERO difference between humans in terms of genome. There are obviously differences when it comes to genes in each individual human's genome, but that's it. Any attempt to separate people as one type or another is dangerous and has no place in an educated and civil society. This outdated and vile "race" construct facilitates what we call racism. The reality is people look how they look and are a product of their environments. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Yup, completely agree.  I read this article a few years ago in National Geographic.  I thought it was an excellent summary of humanity's origins in Africa, the subsequent diaspora and the fact that the greatest disparity in human genes exists in Africa between various Africans (and not between Africans and non-Africans), simply because humans have been in Africa considerably longer than any other place.  To quote the article, "There's more diversity in Africa than in all other continents combined."

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magaz...ce-africa/