So what is your definition of "race"? What is the consensus of evolutionists on what defines race?
Why is that term accepted to describe races of animals? Why do some scientists deny the existence of race? What explains the persistence of phenotypical traits within populations around the world, such as skin color and other characteristics? Why are some "races" susceptible more than others to certain diseases or physiological problems? Why is the human species studied
differently than animals in terms of evolution and genetics?
"The Law of Serendipity: Lady Luck favours those who try" ... 😉🙂
From the foreword of "A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)", a book by Barbara Oakley, a professor of engineering at Oakland University, that you might have some interest in. Highly recommended, wish I'd read it 40 years ago:
But, in other news, I hope you'll be publishing your "Activists Who Compare Humans To Sex-Changing Fish Don’t Go Far Enough" here later on, particularly since I'm lifetime-banned over at RLS 😉🙂:
But since I'm not able to comment over there, I think a big part of the problem is that many people don't realize that the sex binary is NOT exhaustive, that there are many individuals of all anisogamous species, including the human one, who are NEITHER male NOR female, who are sexLESS. That some individuals aren't included in the binary doesn't obviate or nullify it. "up" and "down" -- at least as a pair of directions -- is also a binary, but there are also other directions like "left" and "right".
But you may, or may not, be amused to note that Jerry Coyne has more or less conceded the point, though I think he's also talking out of both sides of his mouth:
JC: "Those 1/6000 individuals are intersexes, neither male nor female."
And apparently even Colin Wright has at least conceded, in some recent tweet, that "sexless" is "theoretically possible" in the fracas over Ian Copeland:
Eva Kurilova: "With great patience, Wright answered that an individual could theoretically be sexless, but that doesn’t mean sex itself is no longer binary."
Seems rational that parents/role models play a part. So do gangs, social media, politics.
I don't think any of those will change. Science denial, addictive algorithms, and religious education are strong forces with many advocates. I predict further lowering. We need social zombies!
It would be interesting to know which, how, or if, students are encouraged to take more or less rigorous subjects while in school. There seems an inference that can be made that this lack of rigorous classes is coming from student choices, but may indeed be coming from outside pressures, including poverty, and malnutrition, along with class size, and number of classes offered. I'd like to see more on this aspect. Otherwise, I don't see what the solution is.
So what is your definition of "race"? What is the consensus of evolutionists on what defines race?
Why is that term accepted to describe races of animals? Why do some scientists deny the existence of race? What explains the persistence of phenotypical traits within populations around the world, such as skin color and other characteristics? Why are some "races" susceptible more than others to certain diseases or physiological problems? Why is the human species studied
differently than animals in terms of evolution and genetics?
"The Law of Serendipity: Lady Luck favours those who try" ... 😉🙂
From the foreword of "A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)", a book by Barbara Oakley, a professor of engineering at Oakland University, that you might have some interest in. Highly recommended, wish I'd read it 40 years ago:
https://www.amazon.ca/Mind-Numbers-Science-Flunked-Algebra-ebook/dp/B00G3L19ZU
But, in other news, I hope you'll be publishing your "Activists Who Compare Humans To Sex-Changing Fish Don’t Go Far Enough" here later on, particularly since I'm lifetime-banned over at RLS 😉🙂:
https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/activists-who-compare-humans-to-sex
But since I'm not able to comment over there, I think a big part of the problem is that many people don't realize that the sex binary is NOT exhaustive, that there are many individuals of all anisogamous species, including the human one, who are NEITHER male NOR female, who are sexLESS. That some individuals aren't included in the binary doesn't obviate or nullify it. "up" and "down" -- at least as a pair of directions -- is also a binary, but there are also other directions like "left" and "right".
But you may, or may not, be amused to note that Jerry Coyne has more or less conceded the point, though I think he's also talking out of both sides of his mouth:
JC: "Those 1/6000 individuals are intersexes, neither male nor female."
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/06/04/sf-chronicle-sex-and-gender-are-not-binaries/#comment-2048737
And apparently even Colin Wright has at least conceded, in some recent tweet, that "sexless" is "theoretically possible" in the fracas over Ian Copeland:
Eva Kurilova: "With great patience, Wright answered that an individual could theoretically be sexless, but that doesn’t mean sex itself is no longer binary."
https://www.thedistancemag.com/p/for-the-last-time-humans-are-not
You may wish to follow-up with both ... 😉🙂
Seems rational that parents/role models play a part. So do gangs, social media, politics.
I don't think any of those will change. Science denial, addictive algorithms, and religious education are strong forces with many advocates. I predict further lowering. We need social zombies!
It would be interesting to know which, how, or if, students are encouraged to take more or less rigorous subjects while in school. There seems an inference that can be made that this lack of rigorous classes is coming from student choices, but may indeed be coming from outside pressures, including poverty, and malnutrition, along with class size, and number of classes offered. I'd like to see more on this aspect. Otherwise, I don't see what the solution is.
so glad you're posting again! I've missed your content.
Excellent writing - Thanks
BTW - Have you read David Bernstein’s Classified:The Untold Story of Racial Classification in American? (Post Hill Press 2022)
It is a very interesting & useful explication of this topic of ‘race’.