
Rationally Speaking #112 - Race: Just a Social Construct?
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The Causal Effects of Race on Other Outcomes
There is no evidence that race has any causal effect on other outcomes it would be at a much finer level. There's another thing to keep in mind and this comes straight out of you know basic population genetic theory. Skin color really truly is obviously adaptive right I mean there's no question about the fact that dark skin evolves usually near the equator and a light skin evolves away from the equator. It takes very little often just one migrant from outside the population per generation is enough to bring in sufficient genetic variation to mess things around completely.
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