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Will We Ever Live in a Post-race World?

The Michael Shermer Show

CHAPTER

The History and Geography of Human Genes

From a scientific point of view, the concept of race has failed to obtain any consensus. For example, Australian Aborigines may look more like African blacks than Southeast Asians but in this case, genetics overrides our perceptual, classificatory schemata. If we go back in time far enough, all humans descended from Africa. Since I'm a member of the species homo sapiens that originated in Africa, I'm either an other orAfrican-Greek German-Swedish-Dane American. And proud of it.

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