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Why are we like this? (Ep 95)
Big Biology
The Importance of Phenotypes
When it comes to social ideas of race, really what's interesting is what phenotypes do we think matter? Depending on what categories we're talking about, we have different inclusion and exclusion criteria. In the US for an example, what it means to be black in the US has historically leaned a lot on ancestry also, right? Not even necessarily phenotype in some cases. And similarly, another example that I give in my classes is people from pop when you Guinea would be like, Oh, that's an African person. That’s a black person. Yeah, totally makes sense. No one says that there are no differences, but it's how these differences are structured group.
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