Re: What Are the Race Deniers Denying?

(frank@clark.net)
1 Dec 1996 23:43:09 GMT

In article <32a13e30.3083419@news.digiworldinc.com>,
Phil Nicholls <pnich@digiworldinc.com> wrote:
>"Race deniers" deny that "race" is in any way a biologically
>meaningful concept. All current racial classifications are what
>anthropologists call "folk taxonomies."
>
>Race deniers do not deny that human variation exists. They simply
>deny that 18th century typology is the best way to study that
>variation in a way that is scientifically meaningful.
>
>Now that the question is answered, we can disengage this thread from
>sci.anthropology.

Not until the initial question is answered. Specifically, what is a
"biologically meaningful concept"?

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