Re: [tied] The indo european "race"

>From: "John" <jdcroft@...>
>
>Exu Yangi wrote
>
> > A-hem...at the risk of being politically incorrect, I am afraid
> > that what we often believe we know is wrong. Or are you really
> > saying you can't tell a Watusi from a Chinese? (Not an adhominem, I
> > really want to know).
>
>Of course one can, but where do you draw the line? Certainly not at
>the Kenya border or at the frontier of the Middle Kingdom. We all
>intergrade - and the intermediary people are not really "half Watusi-
>half Chinese". One could just as well make the case that the Watusi
>or the Chinese was on the way to somewhere else.
>
>There is not "a Chinese gene" or "a Watusi gene" that enables us to
>destinguish one clearly from another (or from their neighbours). All
>us humans are hybrids....
>

Cladistics aside, you are absolutely right. However, you are far more likely
to get a set of genes to make you 2+ meters tall if you are watusi than if
you are chinese.

All I was saying was that there ARE conspicuous regional difference, aka
"race".

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