human racial diversity
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guslWhy is red hair and brown eyes so uncommon? Genetic linkage is the answer.
Evolution of Racial Differences
Where Did White Folks Come From? argues that the "white mutation" happened about 5000 years ago.
Good information on this topic seems awfully hard to find. For example, "what percentage of the Dutch have blue eyes?", and similarly innocent questions seem to yield a high proportion of white supremacists (perhaps because they find it so important?), as well as politically-correct writers who argue (or rather "state without argument") that there exists no biologically meaningful concept of "race". This is a bad sign, and it's why scientists should be able to write about the subject without fear of political reprisal. Pinker makes a similar point at "The Blank Slate".
If you're too eager to deny biology, you must be afraid of the truth...
Evolution of Racial Differences
Where Did White Folks Come From? argues that the "white mutation" happened about 5000 years ago.
Good information on this topic seems awfully hard to find. For example, "what percentage of the Dutch have blue eyes?", and similarly innocent questions seem to yield a high proportion of white supremacists (perhaps because they find it so important?), as well as politically-correct writers who argue (or rather "state without argument") that there exists no biologically meaningful concept of "race". This is a bad sign, and it's why scientists should be able to write about the subject without fear of political reprisal. Pinker makes a similar point at "The Blank Slate".
If you're too eager to deny biology, you must be afraid of the truth...