Re: I can\'t believe I\'m starting a race thread...
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Clearly a construct. I have two different 'species' until I put them in geographical proximity and they interbreed.
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Did you miss the point that they cannot produce fertile offspring?
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Identification of members of the species most likely to share my genetic material, and hence to create offspring that tend to reproduce my genes.
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Kin selection is dependent on close relatives. You're drifting into Washburn's fallacy here. "Race as an extended family" for the purposes of kin selection has been rejected by evolutionary scientists. Look at Maynard Smith's stuff or Dawkins' The Selfish Gene for explanations.
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