{"id":39062,"date":"2014-12-23T19:55:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T19:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39062"},"modified":"2014-12-23T19:55:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T19:55:42","slug":"do-races-differ-not-really-genes-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39062","title":{"rendered":"Do Races Differ? Not Really, Genes Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2000\/08\/22\/science\/do-races-differ-not-really-genes-show.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Do Races Differ? Not Really, Genes Show<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2000-08-22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.natalieangier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Natalie Angier<\/strong><\/a>, Science Columnist<\/p>\n<p>In these glossy, lightweight days of an election year, it seems, they can&#8217;t build metaphorical tents big or fast enough for every politician who wants to pitch one up and invite the multicultural folds to &#8221;Come on under!&#8221; The feel-good message that both parties seek to convey is: regardless of race or creed, we really ARE all kin beneath the skin.<\/p>\n<p>Yet whatever the calculated quality of this new politics of inclusion, its sentiment accords firmly with scientists&#8217; growing knowledge of the profound genetic fraternity that binds together human beings of the most seemingly disparate origins.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long suspected that the racial categories recognized by society are not reflected on the genetic level. But the more closely that researchers examine the human genome &#8212; the complement of genetic material encased in the heart of almost every cell of the body &#8212; the more most of them are convinced that the standard labels used to distinguish people by &#8221;race&#8221; have little or no biological meaning.<\/p>\n<p>They say that while it may seem easy to tell at a glance whether a person is Caucasian, African or Asian, the ease dissolves when one probes beneath surface characteristics and scans the genome for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNA\" target=\"_blank\">DNA<\/a> hallmarks of &#8220;race.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2000\/08\/22\/science\/do-races-differ-not-really-genes-show.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do Races Differ? Not Really, Genes Show The New York Times 2000-08-22 Natalie Angier, Science Columnist In these glossy, lightweight days of an election year, it seems, they can&#8217;t build metaphorical tents big or fast enough for every politician who wants to pitch one up and invite the multicultural folds to &#8221;Come on under!&#8221; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8],"tags":[18866,15207,18867,18868,13563,18865,16440,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-39062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-alan-rogers","tag-aravinda-chakravarti","tag-douglas-c-wallace","tag-harold-p-freeman","tag-j-craig-venter","tag-jurgen-k-naggert","tag-natalie-angier","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}