At 21:03 16/07/2007 +0100, Professor David Gordon wrote:
>So what Martin seems to mean by his comment
>
>'Why not defer to the experts?'
>
>is why not misrepresent their work to conform to his prejudices!
>
>Cavalli-Sforza, Menozzi and Piazza (1994) did not identify 10
>different races - that is their clear conclusion and their 'expert' opinion.
>
>Martin calls this 'Political Correctness' I call this 'science' - it
>seems that 'Political Correctness' covers all scientific results
>that right wing bigots do not like! I guess that means I will now
>do-well according to Martin?
Cavalli-Sforza, Menozzi and Piazza (1994) identified 10 clusters,
which correspond closely to the racial taxonomies of classical
anthropology. Nei and Roychoudhury (1993) also used allele
frequencies and came up with six major groups: Africans of
Sub-Saharan Africa, Caucasoids, East Asians, Southeast Asians,
Amerindians and Australian Aborigines. Again, these groups
correspond with classical taxonomies of race.
Personal attacks aside, it is not clear what, if anything, you are
actually trying to say. That races don't exist? That we should
replace the word "race" with "cluster"? That political correctness
is actually science?!
Martin
Reference:
NEI, Masatoshi and Arun K. ROYCHOUDHURY, 1993. Evolutionary
relationships of human populations on a global scale. Molecular
Biology and Evolution, 10(5), 927-943.
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