The Science of Human Races and Evolution.
Human races exist in about the same way that eras in history exist. They are arbitrary and useful as broad generalizations. What I think I can easily show is that the Victorian idea of race essentialism: that the categories themselves are somehow more meaningful than any other, or that they are homotypic, is unscientific.
Part 2 will cover more on this topic, particularly the abuse of the sociological definition of race to justify a kind of genetic determinism.
A great number of primary sources went into the research for this video. I've annotated when I used figures, but you may also find the following articles useful in learning more:
1. "Evidence for Gradients of Human Genetic Diversity Within and Among Continents"
Genome Res. 2004. 14: 1679-1685.
http://genome.cshlp.org/conten...
2. "Against Racial Medicine"
Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 40, 4:5, 2006
http://ncat.academia.edu/Josep...
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