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Arent' we all from africa?

I'm from Calgary.

he literally has no understanding of the world and always asks the dumbest questions that only someone who never left their mother's basement would ask

he's either an incredibly dedicated troll or room temp iq with zero real world experience - best left on ignore imo

I know for a fact that you can’t be very confident of someone’s genetic makeup because we have a TV programme that does exactly that with guests DNA, and the results are often startling.

Ok but sometimes he is just tongue-in-cheek which i can understand; we are on a leftist platform, but not a radical one, so he plays. That's fine to a point.

But going with "indians are actually black under college admission definitions" is grotesque beyond understanding.

Aren't the English really French. And I'm pretty sure the Scottish are Norse.

Often = more than random? because that's what we are talking about. Not perfection. Just that you can guess better than random. If you can, then races exists, do you agree with this? if ANY information can be gathered about ancestors by looking at someone, then races exist.

Also, do they maybe pick specific weird cases on purpose for the TV show?

Now go to an airport in an city with significant amounts of international travelers. In the taxi queue. If by glancing at a group you can guess the continent they are from better than random, THEN RACES EXIST.

Wonna do a bet? a full afternoon doing this, 10k per guess, 50:50 odds.

what's "cline"? never heard this word

There are connections between races, imagine that.

And you so sure he was talking about me?

Like say you have some species and as it gets to more extreme latitudes then it gets darker, or bigger, etc...this is called clinal variation.

I know of cultivars for agriculture, is that the same? but yes i do agree race doesn't mean a different species. No one is denying children can happen in mixed marriages and be fertile, which is the definition of species iirc

Guess what exactly? Looking at me you might guess I was of “British” or German genes, or maybe American Australian or kiwi but in fact I have French and some Scandinavian genes too, and probably a lot of other stuff.

You’re never going to be able to reliably tell someone from north America from Australians or Western Europeans if you don’t take their clothing and accents etc into account.

Obviously the airport game is stupid because the host country will be over represented.

lol, he was a US high school student who was born in Uganda. This is ****ing dumb even by your normal standards.

Clinal variation is just where you have gradual differences in a species determined by environment-- usually by differences in latitude or elevation. It's seen in birds regularly.

Biologists don't have a strict definition of what qualifies as a species and the ability to produce fertile offspring is just one of several competing definitions.

Assessment of geographical frequencies of phenotype or genotype. So if you look at someone’s phenotype and predict where they are from, that’s what you’re doing.

Careful, you're going to start arguing against yourself again soon.

I mean shoutout Large Marge at deciding now is the time the world needs her to target those Jewish space lasers

Vijay Singh was called The Big Fijian.

My cousin’s father-in-law was named Cline, and so is one of her grandsons. Many years after first meeting him he asked me if I still was into dinosaurs or if I’d finally found reputable work.

I don't understand what that has to do with what I said.

Sure, why not? The last "official" US war was WWII.