{"id":180787,"date":"2007-06-13T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/why-genes-don-t-determine-race\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"why-genes-don-t-determine-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/2007\/06\/13\/why-genes-don-t-determine-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Why genes don&#039;t determine race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      TNR, the journal of the center-left, just published an article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/doc.mhtml?i=w070611&#038;s=chowkwanyun061307\">Why genes don&#8217;t determine race<\/a>. The article doesn&#8217;t merit much of a response aside from &#8220;Why Platonism is wrong on race.&#8221;  The article makes it implicitly clear that the new racial genetics is often one of conditional probabilities, not fixed determinism, but the strawman of &#8220;genetic determinism&#8221; shines brightly in the rhetoric.  In any case, there are good points made in the piece, the obesity epidemic that is rampant in the black American population isn&#8217;t going to be solved by declarations that it is &#8220;in their genes.&#8221;  But, an understanding of the genetic background adds non-trivial utility to formulating a proper public policy response, because there are likely some issues of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norm_of_reaction\">norm of reaction<\/a> lurking in the background. As documented in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1597260916\/geneexpressio-20\/\">Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes and Cultural Diversity<\/a>, varied populations often exhibit different nutritional responses.<\/p>\n<p><b>Addendum:<\/b> In the annals of race, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2007\/06\/070612074944.htm\">Slow Wave Activity During Sleep Is Lower In African-Americans Than Caucasians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/race-current-consensus.php\">Race the current consensus<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/MT2\/archives\/002411.html\">The Platonic Ideal and the Empirical Reality<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/MT2\/archives\/003582.html\">Race is obsolete&#8230;<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/MT2\/archives\/001321.html\">Reality of race is one place<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gnxp\/2006\/04\/race.php\">Race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update: This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/doc.mhtml?i=w070611&amp;s=shubow061407\">response<\/a> very good.\t    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TNR, the journal of the center-left, just published an article titled Why genes don&#8217;t determine race. The article doesn&#8217;t merit much of a response aside from &#8220;Why Platonism is wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawqfx-L1V","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}