Yes. Race matters. Genes matter. But the alt-right idea that "evolution implies X flavor of ethnic/racial tribalism" is false.
Neanderthals themselves may be gone, but from the gene perspective at least they're still 3%. Better than 0.
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Yes, some Neanderthal genes were successful. Some of us have genetic variants that trace back to them.
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But in my example every gene is preserved from the initial population. No information is lost.
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Even the gene frequencies are the same. The only thing that changes is the correlations between genes.
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I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. From the genetic copy perspective, I agree that we're not changing much. (I've never taken
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the position that this is inherently a bad choice).
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I might say that it takes two people of the new group to equal the same genetic interest you had in one person of your ethnic group
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(but we're also assuming that we're simply spreading the copies more thinly among more people)
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The point is that a race can disappear without reducing the fitness of its individuals or genes.
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