Biologists have really got to stop using a count of genes as a measure of similarity. Not all genes are equally important!
It is utterly unimportant that humans share 98.5% of genes with apes, or 70% with bananas.
It's the genes are not not shared that are important. It's those that cause the differences (between species or between humans), and thus those that are important.
Those 1.5% of genes that are not shared are orders of magnitude more important than the 98.5% that are. And the .1% are far more important than their numbers would indicate (although obviously not as important as those genes that divide species, but much more important than one tenth of a percent would seem to imply).
No matter how many times they say otherwise there are measurable, and important, differences between races. The fact that they can not understand them in genes does not mean the differences are not there, it means the geneticists don't know enough yet.
More accurate title: "Race is a psychological phenomenon"
And of course that means that silly, knee-jerk reactions to it prevail in human culture ...as well as silly concepts such as "one-drop" (as in: of blood) - wherein Obama gets called African-American rather than Afri-Euro American.
It is utterly unimportant that humans share 98.5% of genes with apes, or 70% with bananas.
It's the genes are not not shared that are important. It's those that cause the differences (between species or between humans), and thus those that are important.
Those 1.5% of genes that are not shared are orders of magnitude more important than the 98.5% that are. And the .1% are far more important than their numbers would indicate (although obviously not as important as those genes that divide species, but much more important than one tenth of a percent would seem to imply).
No matter how many times they say otherwise there are measurable, and important, differences between races. The fact that they can not understand them in genes does not mean the differences are not there, it means the geneticists don't know enough yet.