Friday, June 19, 2015

What Science Says About Race and Genetics | TIME

http://time.com/91081/what-science-says-about-race-and-genetics/

Exploration of the genome has shown that all humans, whatever their race, share the same set of genes. Each gene exists in a variety of alternative forms known as alleles, so one might suppose that races have distinguishing alleles, but even this is not the case. A few alleles have highly skewed distributions but these do not suffice to explain the difference between races. The difference between races seems to rest on the subtle matter of relative allele frequencies.

---Steve

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