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points by ComposedPattern 17 hours ago | 0 comments
So on that graph, the distance between East and West Africans is about as great as the distance between Indians and Europeans. Somalis are closer to East Asians than they are to Southern African Khoisan people. Bedouin Arabs and Southern Europeans are closer to each other than either are to North Africans or Northern Europeans.

There are certainly some cases where the genetic data matches conventional thinking about race, but also many where they flatly contradict. It also suggests that saying something like "white people are genetically smarter on average than black people" is highly suspect. The group of people that we call "black" has a greater range of genetic profiles than the rest of the world put together, and the group we call "white" is kind of confused—to be genetically meaningful it would probably need to either include North Africans and Arabs or exclude Southern Europeans.

[–] mjanx123 2 hours ago
The social "white race" (declared superior to other "races" to rationalize and justify the UK empire parasitation on a half of the world) corresponds with the northwestern european genetic cluster (with the exclusion of the Irish who were conquered by the UK and not considered white despite being the least pigmented population in the world). The intra european clusters are an ultra fine genetic resolution analysis. The genes that in todays population correlate with high IQ spread from ~2000bc likely with the Iran-neolithic genetic component.
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