Peacock Interbreeding Question

[CyberDrgn]

Ok this is kind of off topic and perhaps a bit wierd. I believe that the posts about human interacial uh...breeding wouldn't be a direct comparison anyhow. Human "races" are all socialized differences. There is really only one race. We are all the species homosapiens.
So anyhow what I was thinking would be a better comparison would be humans crossing with neanderthals.

None of what I just wrote was intended to be offensive or racial, this topic just got me thinking of odd scientific stuff of human evolution, and neanderthals becoming extinct?....or did they end up mixed in with us?

If this isn't making sense let me know and i'll try to think of a better explanation.

 

[Luca Brazzi]

Nice thought CyberDrgn. Sounds nice... but... wrong. There are actually 5 races (according the man who made up these classifications to begin with... Johann Friedrich Blumenbach), and they have nothing to do with social structure/culture/etc.

Check out

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Frank/People/blumen.html

You can also check out Discover Magazines article: The Geometer of Race

 

[Harry Tolen]

Morleyz: I understand your point, and your thoughts related to genetics were not what I had in mind in any case. But the different races of humanity are not separate species. They don't even get as far as being recognized as sub-species. In any case, we can leave it to the planet's six billion humans as to whether or not they wish to interbreed.

But comments implying that a fishkeeper who wants to keep his color variants true to their line breeding would somehow be in favor of racial segregation among humans are right out of bounds. That is what I was attempting to discourage.