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Rationally Speaking #112 - Race: Just a Social Construct?

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The Relationship Between Claims and Evidence

We don't really have any evidence that genes do play a role even though a priori in theory they could my default has always been to go back to the social and cultural explanations. People seem to forget that there's very very good explanations already for a bunch of the kinds of things that allegedly the biological explanation allows us to understand right so we do know quite a bit about historical and cultural and environmental influence and so on and so forth now that doesn't mean that they'll the whole story but it certainly means that at least we have causal explanatory pathways for certain for differences among human populations and individuals which are already available.

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