{"id":55758,"date":"2018-02-20T00:57:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T00:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55758"},"modified":"2018-02-20T00:57:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T00:57:36","slug":"there-is-so-much-diversity-in-africans-that-there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-african-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55758","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThere is so much diversity in Africans that there is no such thing as an African race.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The study adds to established research undercutting old notions of race. You can\u2019t use skin color to classify humans, any more than you can use other complex traits like height, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/tishkoff\/Lab\/Tishkoff\/Tishkoff.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Sarah] Tishkoff<\/a> says. \u201cThere is so much diversity in Africans that there is no such thing as an African race.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ann Gibbons, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New gene variants reveal the evolution of human skin color<\/a>,\u201d <em>Science<\/em>, October 12, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/10\/new-gene-variants-reveal-evolution-human-skin-color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/10\/new-gene-variants-reveal-evolution-human-skin-color<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study adds to established research undercutting old notions of race. You can\u2019t use skin color to classify humans, any more than you can use other complex traits like height, [Sarah] Tishkoff says. \u201cThere is so much diversity in Africans that there is no such thing as an African race.\u201d Ann Gibbons, \u201cNew gene variants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19818,22898,17567,2471],"class_list":["post-55758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-ann-gibbons","tag-sarah-tishkoff","tag-science","tag-science-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55758","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=55758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55759,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55758\/revisions\/55759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}