Re: adaptation and race

Mike Hardie (hardie@globalserve.net)
Mon, 02 Nov 1998 20:07:14 -0800

At 09:25 AM 11/2/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Kevin, you wrote:
>
>"The only factors that have kept racial features consistent have been =
>geographical (now overcome by technology) and social; there are =
>virtually no genetic factors that insure genetic consistency in races."
>
>If this is so, it would seem that the very word "race" is
>pretty much without meaning, at least in a scientific sense.
>Would you agree?

I, for one, would definitely agree, if the qualifier *physical* is added to
science. Social sciences, obviously, still have to be concerned with race.

Regards,

Mike Hardie
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