Here's an old (but relevant) video where Bill Nye talks about race. He presents a compelling argument that there really is no such thing as race, and mentions how scientific academies have been suggesting to governments to get rid of the term.

Interesting subject. I guess we're all part of the same race, The Human Race. I wonder how they account for different bone and eye structures?

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I remember my ninth grade teacher going through a list of how much Bill Nye got his science either wrong or outdated. It was kind of an intro to how high school science, "real" science was done.

I like the satirical old style "Mr. Wizard" show.

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In the video he attributed that to bottlenecks throughout human history.


I don't really know. However, he had two different shows. His more famous and popular one was "Bill Nye the Science Guy" and was made for kids, so would fit what you were talking about. The one I posted was an episode of "The Eyes of Nye" so it was made for an older audience. Not really sure what your teacher was talking about, so maybe he meant the other show?

My teacher was definitely talking about the kids' show.

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I'm no expert, but I would guess gene pools that have been isolated for tens of thousands of years is the only factor that causes the very few differences between the races.

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This video uses emotion and opinion and not actual science. There are tonnes of anthropologists who spend all day studying the differences between different groups of humans. Were not all alike and we didn't all spend thousands of years in the same place eating the same food and experiencing the same difficulties and challanges. There are biological differences between races. In medicine certain races are more suseptible to certain deseases or more resistant. The idea that race makes us different doesn't mean we can't be equals.

And I don't know why Bill Nye thinks it should.. well hey he's probable a closet kkk..

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Not that Bill Nye isn't the fountain of scientific knowledge but the argument that race is a social construct has been around for decades (if not just somewhat recently brought to the forefront).

American Anthropological Association: Statement on Race
([...]it has become clear that human populations are not unambiguous, clearly demarcated, biologically distinct groups. Evidence from the analysis of genetics (e.g., DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%, lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic "racial" groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This means that there is greater variation within "racial" groups than between them.) - http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/racepp.htm

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Well, naturally people of different races will have different variation. Duh, or we would all be identical. The key there is the 6%. 6% of 30 MILLION possible differences result in about 1.8 MILLION base pairs unique to a group. That means, ALL individuals in the group have it. Given that humans and chimps are seperated by only 6% genetic difference, this quantity is most certainly LARGE ENOUGH, to provide distinction for each race.

He isn't saying there aren't differences. (That would be like double speak, we have different skin colors, for 1) He's saying that the varying adaptations we have are minimal and can't be used to really pin down your country of origin. Our race (the human race) consists of people so simillar to eachother you could compare the dna of two people in the same village and find the same amount of variation as comparing one person in a village to another half a world away. (Or so is claimed in the video, I haven't done enough research on my own to have an opinion I could claim as my own)

Anything is possible, but thats a bit of a stretch.

The variation between a human of one "race" to another "race" is the same as 2 people in the same "race", so its nothing like the amount of variation between us an chimps. (Again, just quoting from the video)

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