Whodathunkit? From Yasmin Tayag at Inverse:
Those long-held racist assumptions based on skin color have been scientifically proven wrong, according to a groundbreaking new study in the journal Science published on Thursday.
With their observations, the team of geneticists led by the University of Pennsylvania’s Sarah Tishkoff, Ph.D., tear down that notion by discrediting the idea that race has any biological roots. (The paper is titled “Loci associated with skin pigmentation identified in African populations.”)
The researchers identified the genes linked to the diversity of human skin color and when and where those genes emerged. More.
That the light-skin genes originated in Africa is useful to know. But it’s worth keeping in mind that racism only came to seem “scientific” anyway when it had the backing of Darwinian naturalism
See also: The alt right, Donald Trump, and – oddly enough – Darwin. Anyone not committed to Darwinian survival of the fittest cannot be ‘alt right’.
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Surprise, surprise, social psych tool for measuring racism doesn’t work