Since I was talking to @CovfefeAnon about whether "race" is a binary category or a smooth manifold, I thought it would be interesting to do a thesis-antithesis-synthesis in pictures.
Thesis:pic.twitter.com/hqEBmNmOBg
Not to be confused with 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan. 54th Clause of the Magna Carta absolutist. Commentary from an NRx perspective.
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Since I was talking to @CovfefeAnon about whether "race" is a binary category or a smooth manifold, I thought it would be interesting to do a thesis-antithesis-synthesis in pictures.
Thesis:pic.twitter.com/hqEBmNmOBg
By PCA the thesis is basically entirely true and the antithesis is entirely false. The categories are as discrete as anything you'll find in biology. Eurasians all have Neanderthal admixture, Africans don't. Africans have up to 20% admixture from a ghost population.pic.twitter.com/VtIsdh8rCC
The fst distance is the same as some animal groups universally regarded as different species (wolves / coyotes) and greater than others regarded as different species (species of gorilla, chimps / bonobos, etc.)pic.twitter.com/EAUuMgkp27
Now, interbreeding is possible between human species but that's the case for many separate species and doesn't imply a continuum between the species if there was no historical range where there was a smooth transition from one species to another.
Even species where that is the case - polar bears and brown bears - no one has any trouble recognizing that they are separate species and there's no continuum of polar-brown bears.
I think polar bears and grizzly bears are breeding to make pizzly bears. "Species" is a man-made category that nature doesn't actually care about.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly%E2%80%93polar_bear_hybrid …
Even if race / specie is a spectrum, it still matters. There are certain medications a doctor cannot safely prescribe to blacks.
They should prescribe them to blacks anyway or not prescribe them to anyone - patient outcomes are unimportant compared to racism. (Serious version of this Poe's Law post is that it's guaranteed FDA will never again approve a drug in this category)
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