On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 19:31:41 GMT, "Jupiter" <jekluk@aol.com> wrote:

>For years, mainstream scientists have said there are no real racial
>differences among people. Race is purely a "social construct" -- in other
>words, it's imaginary, some have argued.
>But two new studies raise doubts about a key calculation on which this
>argument rests.This calculation, often cited publicly by world-renowned
>geneticists, is that all humans are more than 99.9 percent genetically
>identical.
>http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/040908_racefrm
>
It doesn't matter whether we are 99.9% the same and only 0.1%
different, or 99.8% the same with a wopping 0.2% difference.

The point is that the human eye and brain can separate the human
population into groups which we recognise as different races. The
question is not whether or not there are different groups but how we
can define the boundaries.

The denial of different racial groups is a relatively recent
phenomenon and stems from the the reluctance to make comparisons
between the groups.



Eric Stevens