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"Anthropometric measurements of large populations show that systematic differences exist among blacks, whites and Asians. The published evidence is massive: blacks have longer limbs than whites, and because blacks have longer legs and smaller circumferences (e.g. calves and arms), their center of mass is higher than that in other individuals of the same height. Asians and whites have longer torsos, therefore their centers of mass are lower.
These structural differences, they argue, generate differences in performance. Using equations about the physics of locomotion, they analyze racing as a process of falling forward. Based on this analysis, they conclude that having a higher center of body mass in a standing position is advantageous in running but disadvantageous in swimming."
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Eliminate race from that statement, and I would agree with you. Race is not a physical attribute. That is the point. There are greater genetic differences between any two individuals than there are between any two races. (re my comment, race, skin color, hair color, eye color and hundreds of other physical attributes are genetic.)
Race is indeed an inherited trait, as is many biological, including neurological and physiological, characteristics. In how we treat each other, irrelevant. Racists, however, view life and value differently.
lifted from elsewhere....A human race is defined as a group of people with certain common inherited features that distinguish them from other groups of people...Most anthropologists recognize 3 or 4 basic races of man in existence today. These races can be further subdivided into as many as 30 subgroups.
Someday, perhaps at the loss of the beauty of difference, the races and all their characteristics will melt together.
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Eliminate race from that statement, and I would agree with you. Race is not a physical attribute. That is the point. There are greater genetic differences between any two individuals than there are between any two races. (re my comment, race, skin color, hair color, eye color and hundreds of other physical attributes are genetic.)
Race is indeed an inherited trait, as is many biological, including neurological and physiological, characteristics. In how we treat each other, irrelevant. Racists, however, view life and value differently.
lifted from elsewhere....A human race is defined as a group of people with certain common inherited features that distinguish them from other groups of people...Most anthropologists recognize 3 or 4 basic races of man in existence today. These races can be further subdivided into as many as 30 subgroups.
Someday, perhaps at the loss of the beauty of difference, the races and all their characteristics will melt together.
