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theadvancedapes · 4112 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Enlightenment’s ‘Race’ Problem, and Ours
One of my favourite quotes from biological anthropologist Jonathan Marks:If we know that there are gradients, not boundaries; that human variation is patterned locally, not transcontinentally; that the extremes are not the purest representatives of anything, but simply the most divergent; that populations are invariably mixed with their neighbours, and in the last half-millennium with people from far away; and that clustering populations into larger units is a cultural act that values some differences as important and submerges others - then race evaporates as a natural unit.