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In a nutshell
"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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according to UNESCO...
"A race, from the biological standpoint, may therefore be defined as one of the group of populations constituting the species Homo sapiens which populations are capable of interbreeding with one another, but which by virtue of the isolating barriers which in the past more or less kept them separated, exhibit certain physical differences as a result of their somewhat biological histories.
In short, the term "race" designates some concentrations, relative as to frequency and distribution, of genes or physical characters, which appear, fluctuate, and often disappear in the course of time by reason of geographic and/or cultural isolation.
These are the scientific facts. Unfortunately, however, when most people use the term "race" they do not do so in the sense above described.
The only characteristics which anthropologists can effectively use as a basis for the classification of human groups are physical and physiological characteristics.
Such differences as exist between members of different ethnic groups have no relevance to problems of sociological and and political organization, moral life, and communication between human beings."
Agreed. I am not using the xenophobic or 'most people' meaning of race.
Differences between ethnic groups can have relevance to research interpretation and health care.
I would also say that what UNESCO considers 'scientific facts' can fairly be considered scientific.
according to UNESCO...
"A race, from the biological standpoint, may therefore be defined as one of the group of populations constituting the species Homo sapiens which populations are capable of interbreeding with one another, but which by virtue of the isolating barriers which in the past more or less kept them separated, exhibit certain physical differences as a result of their somewhat biological histories.
In short, the term "race" designates some concentrations, relative as to frequency and distribution, of genes or physical characters, which appear, fluctuate, and often disappear in the course of time by reason of geographic and/or cultural isolation.
These are the scientific facts. Unfortunately, however, when most people use the term "race" they do not do so in the sense above described.
The only characteristics which anthropologists can effectively use as a basis for the classification of human groups are physical and physiological characteristics.
Such differences as exist between members of different ethnic groups have no relevance to problems of sociological and and political organization, moral life, and communication between human beings."
Agreed. I am not using the xenophobic or 'most people' meaning of race.
Differences between ethnic groups can have relevance to research interpretation and health care.
I would also say that what UNESCO considers 'scientific facts' can fairly be considered scientific.
