- 14 May 2024 01:47
#15315458
This is precisely why race is scientifically useless. It is impossible to identify the "most recent common ancestor" to a random Han and a random Scottish - outside of Mitochondrial Eve and Y Chromosome Adam - and it may not even be the same individual to different collections of Scots and Chinese.
FiveofSwords wrote:Dude..different human populations also have different ancestors. There is a 'common ancestor' with a scottish person and a Russian person. There is a common ancestor with a scottish person and a han Chinese. There is a common ancestor with a scottish person and a native american. Etc. All of these things you claim are meaningful is also true with human populations. So yeah...once again...either both race and species are simply social constructs or neither of them are. Pick one.
This is precisely why race is scientifically useless. It is impossible to identify the "most recent common ancestor" to a random Han and a random Scottish - outside of Mitochondrial Eve and Y Chromosome Adam - and it may not even be the same individual to different collections of Scots and Chinese.