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Originally Posted by The Dark Enlightenment
Homo Sapiens is a species.
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Actually, it's
Homo Sapiens Sapiens, which evolved after
Homo Sapiens roughty 35,000 years ago or more.
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Originally Posted by lkb0714
There is no such thing as European culture. Our European ancestors didn’t call themselves European, they identified as what ever country they came from.
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That's right.
That's effectively what the 1648 Peace of Westphalia treaty did.
It transformed the supra-tribes into the nation-States we know today.
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Originally Posted by Supachai
All humans are related but we are not all genetically the same. Some of us have strands of DNA that are hundreds of thousands of years removed from other people. This isn't something trivial.
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That's right.
It's just Political Correctness couched as "science."
The only thing that's true about all humans is that ~90% of our DNA is do-nothing DNA, because it doesn't do anything except function as some kind of place-holder.
You know those reptiles and amphibians that can lose their tails and regrow a new one?
We have that gene. That was discovered in the late 1970s and since then they've been trying to figure out why it doesn't work in humans. We have a lot of genes like that, from lower order organisms but they don't do anything.
But in that 10% that we all share, there is tremendous variation and that's what the PC crowd doesn't tell you.
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Originally Posted by dude5568
Question 2 - How many races do you think exist in the world and what common descents ( respectively ) do all these races have ?
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Maybe 3 to 8 of which some are extinct.
60 Million years ago, every single square inch of Earth was triple canopy tropical rain forest.
Every square inch mean every square inch including Scandinavia, Siberia, Canada, Alaska, North, Central and South America and even Antarctica.
Primates over-ran Africa, Europe and Asia, and when a volcanic event created a land-bridge between Scandinavia and North America, primates crossed it and filled Canada/Alaska and North and Central America and stopped.
They stopped because they couldn't swim.
Then, about 23 Million years ago, the North and South American Plates collided to form the Panamanian Isthmus and the primates moved into South America.
That was also the beginning of the end, because it forever changed the climate on Earth. Seawater can no longer circulate between North America and South America and the Antarctic Continent moving at about 2 cm per year starts reaching critical mass in the Antarctic Circle. It retains more and more accumulated snow and ice.
The climate becomes cooler and drier and kills off most of the triple canopy rain forest. Of the 24+ species of primates in Canada/Alaska and North, Central and South America only 8 species survive and they're in the jungles of Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Belize and one or two species in the jungles of Brasil.
The primates follow the rain forests and as they shrink you end up with pockets in Southeast Asia, Central Africa, Southern Europe and probably somewhere around the Caspian or Aral Sea.
All those many different primate species coming together in these pockets of remaining rain forest create extreme population pressures as they compete for food and resources.
That's where humans eventually evolved.
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