• amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    17 hours ago

    none of the things you just listed are physical traits that race depends on. it’s purely based on perceived phenotype

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      8 hours ago

      Right, but because most of humanity has been mostly reproductively isolated from each other for most of history there is a correlation between expressed phenotype in the handful of things that we think of as “race” and a boatload of other assorted genetically linked things.

      Like how dogs with certain eye colors are more likely to go deaf.