{"id":55891,"date":"2018-03-14T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55891"},"modified":"2018-03-14T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T21:33:22","slug":"what-this-means-is-that-the-deepest-splits-in-the-human-family-arent-between-what-are-usually-thought-of-as-different-races-whites-say-or-blacks-or-asians-or-native-americans-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55891","title":{"rendered":"What this means is that the deepest splits in the human family aren\u2019t between what are usually thought of as different races\u2014whites, say, or blacks or Asians or Native Americans. They\u2019re between African populations&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By analyzing the genes of present-day Africans, researchers have concluded that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khoisan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Khoe-San<\/a>, who now live in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_Africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">southern Africa<\/a>, represent one of the oldest branches of the human family tree. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pygmy_peoples\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pygmies<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Central_Africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">central Africa<\/a> also have a very long history as a distinct group. What this means is that the deepest splits in the human family aren\u2019t between what are usually thought of as different races\u2014whites, say, or blacks or Asians or Native Americans. They\u2019re between African populations such as the Khoe-San and the Pygmies, who spent tens of thousands of years separated from one another even before humans left <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Africa<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elizabeth Kolbert, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There\u2019s No Scientific Basis for Race\u2014It\u2019s a Made-Up Label<\/a>,\u201d <em>National Geographic<\/em>, April 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2018\/04\/race-genetics-science-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2018\/04\/race-genetics-science-africa\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By analyzing the genes of present-day Africans, researchers have concluded that the Khoe-San, who now live in southern Africa, represent one of the oldest branches of the human family tree. The Pygmies of central Africa also have a very long history as a distinct group. What this means is that the deepest splits in 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":[3],"tags":[28132,15901],"class_list":["post-55891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-elizabeth-kolbert","tag-national-geographic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55891","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=55891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55892,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55891\/revisions\/55892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}