I'm not exactly sure how you, or anyone, can refer to the classification
of "races" as modern anthropology. Racial classification schemes are
purely a product of colonial racism and the need for white governments
and military to justify conquest, assimilation, and other genocidal
policies.
I must admit that your statements are an embarassment to me, as an
anthropologist. Much of anthropology is permeated with a subtle racism,
and one of the dicipline's major concerns at this point is learning
where these biases lie and how they function to keep non-white people in
obscurity and poverty. We MUST learn to recognize the faults in our
theories and classification schemes, and understand that our ideas can
be damaging to the people we claim to be helping.
Further, according to the physical and cultural anthropologists that
taught me, the chromosomal variation that produces "racial differences"
is not nearly as significant as the variation in chromosome patterns
found within one "race." Therefore," racial type" is simply a fictional
idea. Further, I would spend a lot of research time and money on deter-
mining whether ANY species could spring up in two places. I strongly
doubt that the whims of the evolutionary process would match so closely
in two very different environments that one species could actually
emerge in two places.
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Debbie Conner
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