Evrim, Genetik ve Irk: Evrimsel Biyolojinin Işığında İnsan Irkının Anlamsızlığı

Temelinde türlerin değişmezliği yatan sömürgeci bir tasnif aracı olarak ırk kavramı biyolojik olarak anlamsızdır. Son 45 yılın protein ve DNA düzeyi çeşitliliğine insan toplumlarında odaklanan genetik çalışmalar, eski fizik antropolojinin ve yerleşik popüler algının yaptı- ğı gibi, insan toplumlarının keskin gruplara ayrılamayacağını göstermektedir. İnsan türünün genetik çeşitlilik miktarının ezici bir kısmı herhangi bir toplum içinde varlığını devam ettirmekte, insan türünü biyolojik açıdan bariz kategorilere ayırmak mümkün olmamaktadır.

Evolution, Genetics and the Race: Evolutionary Biology and the Fallacy of the Human Race Concept

Human race concept, which has its historical frame in colonialism and old fashioned classification, has no biological basis. Work on the human populations in the past 45 years clearly indicates that, contrary to the outmoded categorization of old biological anthropology and the popular conceptualization, human populations have no strict boundaries between them. Greatest part of the human total genetic variation as a species is included within any population. Consequently, it is no valid an assumption that human species can be partitioned into biologically objective and persistent "race" categories.

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