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Aven & Mark discuss etymology, history, literature, language, and cocktails, and the sometimes surprising connections between them all.
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The premise that race as a real, genetically based difference between groups of people with visibly different physical characteristics is actually valid. However, the variations are not simple or straightforward. First of all genes are components of DNA that determine our physical characteristics, like height and eye color. These characteristics are heritable. A gene comes in different forms called alleles which manifest as variations of a trait, like hair color or ability to digest lactose. Some traits involve several to many genes so allele combinations can be very varied. At the single allele level, race does not exist since all alleles occur in all groups of the three major racial groups. But groups of alleles are characteristic of racial differences. Since race at the physical level is rather obvious, saying it does not exist is futile and disquieting. That all races are part of the same human species is absolutely true. And all races and species for that matter deserve equal res