Very interesting. So what is this thing we call race then?

I understand from what you said that it is definitely not the same as, or a subset of being a species; but then what is it?

Is it just a bundle of physical characteristics that are more or less likely to show up based on the parents genes? But that gets right back to being based on genetics.

So if we say we are going to categorize people by skin color, and skin color is determined by genes, and we are going to name these categories races - don't we have races?

I guess I'm confused by the fact that skin color is a physical characteristic determined by genetic ancestry, yet you seem to be saying that race is not something that can be defined by physical characteristics.

Gonna have to think on it more later - better get some work done.

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