Do you believe in a superior race?

I'm saying that anyone with a basic grasp on evolution knows that the humans species has existed for a fragment of a second on the evolutionary scale. Biological differences are aesthetic, there is no such thing as race... only different combinations of physical characteristics.

Your half-baked ramblings belong in a stupider time.

Maybe they do, but the origin of this difference could easily be environmental. Europeans used to be extremely strong and hardy, in contrast to how we are now and it has been shown that testosterone rates for men in all age groups have been falling in the developed world and black people who may be more marginalised, poor and lead lives which expose them to more violence might be "sheltered" from the cause of this. Isolating the chemical trigger of their success in sports hasn't proved the chemical difference is an innate one, even things as symple as diet and exercise can alter a persons hormone level very much.

What population has no admixture? A history of colonialism, war and migration would have created admixture everywhere; your precious anthropologists have stated this clearly. Odokuma et al. (2010) found craniometric variance amongst Nigerian ethnic groups. Do you have evidence to suggest biological heterogeneity amongst West Africans? Why are differences between the women depicted in that photo extant? I have no trouble distinguishing between various Europeans, Africans and East Asians because everyone looks different. It's well known and accepted that variation within populations is greater than what is between populations, which is something your precious anthropologists have also agreed upon.

"Studies of human population genetics and evolution have generated the strongest proof that there is no scientific basis for racism, with the demonstration that human genetic diversity between populations is small, and perhaps entirely the result of climatic adaptation and random drift." (Cavalli-Sforza, 2005).

You should meet my family. In addition to my Mom's sister and one of their brothers, all of my ancestors on my Mom's side (including my Mom, of course) were born with amber or blue or blue and green eyes (i.e. depending on the intensity of the light that the eyes are exposed to, the eyes can be as blue as the sky or as green as the grass--not to be confused with a type of Mediterranean eyes). They're all relatively fair skinned, but the blue eyed and blue and green eyed people were born with "white" skin. Oh and I used to be a bit lighter, but now I'm brown, and I've had freckles since I was 3 or 4 or 5 years old and now I'm 20; my hair also gets red tones under the sun; also, I have high cheekbones (actually, quite a few people in my family do) and big eyes. On the other hand, our distant relatives have darker features. In fact, there are a few, who are really really dark, like almost black. However, we all have straight hair. Oh I'm South Asian, btw.

Although there are occasional comments about skin color and nose shape, no one from my Mom's immediate family puts an emphasis on features because in the end, no matter where we are now, we were born in South Asia and that makes us South Asians. How much protein (i.e. melanin) and how narrow our nostrils are doesn't matter to us. We know that our DNA determines this. People have always migrated from one place to another since the origin of anatomically modern humans in East Africa. So no one, including you, is either Caucasian, Negroid, or Mangloid. Why? BECAUSE RACE DOES NOT EXIST.

West Africans have no Eurasian geneflow, East Africans are of 60% Western Asian derivation. Its why they cluster with Caucasoids in craniometrics.

‘‘A high proportion of Ethiopian lineages, significantly more abundant in the northeast of that country, trace their western Eurasian origin in haplogroup N through assorted gene flow at different times and involving different source populations.’’(Toomas Kivisild et al.) Human Biology 75.2 (2003) 293-300

‘‘Ethiopians appear to be distinct from Africans and more closely associated with populations of the Mediterranean basin.’’ (Scacchi et al. 2003)

‘‘A similarly high proportion of western Asian Y chromosomes in Ethiopians (Passarino et al. 1998; Semino et al. 2002), which supports the view (Richards et al. 2003) that the observed admixture between sub-Saharan African and, most probably, western Asian ancestors of the Ethiopian populations applies to their gene pool in general.’’ (Am. J. Hum. Genet., 75:000, 2004)

‘‘East African groups, such as Ethiopians and Somalis, have great genetic resemblance to Caucasians and are clearly intermediate between sub-Saharan Africans and Caucasians’’
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC139378/

Cavalli-Sforza generally supports the 5 racial divisions as outlined in his History and Geography of Human Genes (1994) and uses such terminology. Suddenly though ten years later he's saying race doesn't exist. He's contradicted himself.

Here is another article he wrote supporting racial reality -

L.L. Cavalli-Sforza on Human Races
http://www.goodrumj.com/CavalliS.html

West Africans have no Eurasian geneflow, East Africans are of 60% Western Asian derivation. Its why they cluster with Caucasoids in craniometrics.


‘‘East African groups, such as Ethiopians and Somalis, have great genetic resemblance to Caucasians and are clearly intermediate between sub-Saharan Africans and Caucasians’’
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC139378/

You are wrong about West African's having no gene flow from caucasians. Arabs for like the last 1000 years have been trading goods, and slaves with the people and have been interbreeding. Whites arrived on the scene 250 years ago and have left a footprint.

My mother and my uncle are west Africans, yet 2 of my maternal cousins who are mixed race have blue eyes, pale skin and fine noses. My mum says that she is roughly 1/3 white as her mother was apparently mixed race and her Dad was 1/4. Having been to Nigeria, I have also seen p;lenty of people on the coast with green eyes. Further up north there is more arab admixture. West Africans , to a degree, are mixed.

This isn't geneflow, its just modern admixture on a very minute scale. Geneflow involves migration of a population of considerable size. Historically East Africa has recieved large amounts of geneflow because Caucasoids have settled there since the Mesolithic. Western Africa however was never en masse colonised in prehistoric or ancient times, its why its inhabitants remain Negroid in phenotype.

You know north and east Africans despise West Africans for their broad, primitive facial features and nappy hair. Those Negroid traits are despised and looked down upon. Its why black women go to extremes to artifically straighten their natural afro or wooly hair. Hair straighteners in the Negroid community is like a billion dollar industry.

Gene flow isn't everywhere. For example Negroid Y-DNA and mtDNA is wholly absent in ethnic-Europeans. Just take a look at the haplogroup maps. Some places are entirely homogenous and have no admixture. Africa however is heterogeneous, as it has been settled by different races for tens of thousands of years. Unadmixed Negroids are just restricted to western, and to a lesser extent central Sub-Sahara Africa. If you go to these places, there is no physical diversity. The Negroid or true ''Black'' is wooly haired, prognathic and wide nosed. As you though move into eastern and northern Africa, the populations have greater phenotypic diversity - because they are Caucasoid (Hamitic) admixed, hence they are orthognathic, thinner nosed and straighter haired. Note also the language composition of Africa. Afro-Asiatic originated in the middle-east and was imported into north and east africa by Hamitic Caucasoids. Negroid language in contrast is Niger-Congo. All civilizations, agriculture, technology etc was introduced into Africa by Eurasian Caucasoids.

So are you saying that evolution has had no effect what so ever on the brain?

This isn't geneflow, its just modern admixture on a very minute scale. Geneflow involves migration of a population of considerable size. Historically East Africa has recieved large amounts of geneflow because Caucasoids have settled there since the Mesolithic. Western Africa however was never en masse colonised in prehistoric or ancient times, its why its inhabitants remain Negroid in phenotype.

You know north and east Africans despise West Africans for their broad, primitive facial features and nappy hair. Those Negroid traits are despised and looked down upon. Its why black women go to extremes to artifically straighten their natural afro or wooly hair. Hair straighteners in the Negroid community is like a billion dollar industry.

Alternatively, it is very difficult to manage, gets frizzy and matted easily, and is difficult and painful to comb.