Re: human species
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2021 6:21 pm
We would say we believe in clines only now and since the science was first published in the 1960s
Realism, Antirealism, and
Conventionalism about Race
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/192609713.pdf
This paper distinguishes three concepts of “race”: bio-genomic cluster/race, biological
race, and social race. We map out realism, antirealism, and conventionalism about each
of these, in three important historical episodes: Frank Livingstone and Theodosius
Dobzhansky in 1962, A. W. F. Edwards’s 2003 response to Lewontin’s 1972 paper, and
contemporary discourse. Semantics is especially crucial to the first episode, while
normativity is central to the second. Upon inspection, each episode also reveals a variety
of commitments to the metaphysics of race. We conclude by interrogating the relevance
of these scientific discussions for political positions and a post-racial futureThere are no races, there are only clines. (Livingstone 1962, 279)
If races did not exist they would have to be invented. (Dobzhansky 1968, 78)
Human racial classification is of no social value and is positively destructive of social and human relations. (Lewontin
1972, 397)
But it is a dangerous mistake to premise the moral equality of
human beings on biological similarity because dissimilarity,
once revealed, then becomes an argument for moral inequality.
(Edwards 2003, 801)