Benjamin
Benjamin
Aug 26, 2017 · 1 min read

So even if the thousands of years of adaptation only gives rise to a few minor but clinically observable genetic differences between populations, such as one or other type of thalassemia, these populations must now be defined as a different race? What about… when someone in a population where Alpha-thalassemia is common does not have Alpha-thalassemia? Does that mean that they are not of that race? If one type of thalassemia appears occasionally in the Chinese population, does this mean that Chinese people with this thalassemia are a different race to all other Chinese?

So, I’ve read briefly about thalassemia,and it’s not obvious how this is some kind of easy marker for distinguishing anything like ‘race’.

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