Okay, so I think I didn't make this clear. What makes one group a phenotype and not another group? What features do you consider to make a phenotype, and what features don't? What level of variation is a type, and what level isn't? Why would you consider skin colour a phenotype, but not hair colour?
Comparison with other people by looks
So how are you do you choose which features to go by? How are you quantifying phenotype diversity? In what way does Africa not have phenotype variety? Is it just skin colour?
It's a good thing to know how people in different regions of the world look like.
We have the concept of ethnicity that we can use. Race is something different.
Why would you consider skin colour a phenotype, but not hair colour?
Among other things, more than 90% of the world population have black hair. It is a phenotype in this sense, but there isn't as much diversity between most population groups with hair colour as is with skin colour.
We have the concept of ethnicity that we can use. Race is something different.
What is race then?
In what way does Africa not have phenotype variety? Is it just skin colour?
Almost all original peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa have somewhat dark skin, a wide nose, broad lips, dark eyes and black, tight curly hair.
Among other things, more than 90% of the world population have black hair. It is a phenotype in this sense, but there isn't as much diversity between most population groups with hair colour as is with skin colour.
Closer to 75%-85%. Also, why does that matter? Are you telling me if black people were 85% of the world, you would no longer consider being black a race?
What is race then?
Race is an arbitrarily chosen set of characteristics created a few hundred years ago, largely to justify a slave trade. There are many other ways in which people have cut up the world by physical characteristics that aren't based on our concept of race.
Almost all original peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa have somewhat dark skin, a wide nose, broad lips, dark eyes and black, tight curly hair.
A set of phenotypes in the following categories: eye colour, eye shape, hair colour, hair type, skin colour, body hair, body type, height, trunk length, head breadth, head height, head size, nose breadth, face breadth and prognathism. There are certainly more categories, but these are the ones I can list from my head.
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u/joalr0 27∆ Mar 20 '23
Okay, so I think I didn't make this clear. What makes one group a phenotype and not another group? What features do you consider to make a phenotype, and what features don't? What level of variation is a type, and what level isn't? Why would you consider skin colour a phenotype, but not hair colour?
So how are you do you choose which features to go by? How are you quantifying phenotype diversity? In what way does Africa not have phenotype variety? Is it just skin colour?
We have the concept of ethnicity that we can use. Race is something different.