Racial Genetic Differences

You don't think people from a certain place tend to share similar genetics?

Physical difference is not the same thing as genetic difference. Humans may subjectively look very different but genetically humans aren't very different. This is empiracle fact. Stop living in the 19th century.

There is no implication at all that this is a genetic phenomenon. The research simply states that we are better at recognizing people within our race than outside of our race. From the point of the experiment both genetics and "what we're used to" are equally valid ways of explaining this effect. And neither the article nor the research attempted to put forth either.

Human beings are a very genetically homogenous species, far more so than most.Suppose you take a member of an ethnic group and compare them to two other randomly selected individuals, one from their ethnic group and one from a different ethnic group. The chances their genetic differences will be greater with one rather than the other is very close to 50/50. Ethnicity makes only a very tiny difference, the vast, vast majority of the differences between individuals have nothing to do with

I don't think it is merely cultural. It has to be a genetic difference between people of particular areas.

Large genetic variation within groups does not invalidate that there are measurable aggregate differences in gene frequencies between groups. Which is why it is trivially easy to accurately identify people of African, East Asian, and European ancestry by sight alone.

Race does not exist... therefore there won't be a genetic difference in average outcomes between different people groups. It is useful to think of variation from person-to-person but it is impossible to make comparisons between ethnic groups/races because no substantive differences exist among the various human populations. Probably the study results you reference are a result of different environments...

The point is a very simple one. People who appear similar, or have a similar cultural background (and hence belong to the same "race" in American terms) are often no more similar genetically than two randomly selected members of the population.

Yes, ppl in the same country have more similar genomes. But modern population genetics has found that 1. There is more similarity than difference between any 2 humans on earth (there are africans and europeans who share more dna than with others of their own ancestry. And, 2. People move around, a lot! We knew this already but there are a huge number of undocumented migrations that are being revealed by these studies. Turns out 20th century multiculturalism is just an acceleration of what we alr

Specific people no, but genetics shows connections beyond culture.