>This becomes a core tenent of their (un)beliefs, that somehow we are all equal in construction, AND that evolution is real.
This is a strawman of the real understanding that humans, as a species, have extremely low genetic diversity. Along with that, variations within a population are larger than variations between populations. In addition, there are countless confounding factors that play a larger role. Lastly, teasing out actual cause and effect is incredibly difficult. “Anti-racist” scientists simply understand to not take simplistic, reductive interpretations and jump to conclusions trying to get easy answers to complex situations.
> within a population are larger than variations between populations
That doesn’t really change anything, though. That low variance still might allow (and well.. obviously does) enough space for significant genetics differences (that impact everything ranging from physical properties to intelligence) between individuals or subgroups to manifest themselves.
In theory we could certainly produce a “breed” of extremely physically fit “super-humans”. Same probably applies to other traits. Not that anyone should be ever allowed under any circumstances to try something like that.
With modern understanding of genetics eugenics would be more or less scientifically sound on paper (of course a dystopian society which regulates human breeding would be a horrible place to exist in even if it was made up of objectively “genetically superior” individuals)
Exactly. A single base pair out of 3 billion can cause blonde hair, sickle cell, dwarfism, and a million other things that aren’t necessarily even negative. People from two different continents differing at hundreds of thousands of sites in addition to millions of within-population variants says nothing about phenotypic differences.
This is a strawman of the real understanding that humans, as a species, have extremely low genetic diversity. Along with that, variations within a population are larger than variations between populations. In addition, there are countless confounding factors that play a larger role. Lastly, teasing out actual cause and effect is incredibly difficult. “Anti-racist” scientists simply understand to not take simplistic, reductive interpretations and jump to conclusions trying to get easy answers to complex situations.