Re: Racism

In article <1167533790.760886.79670@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx <ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Helmut Weber wrote:
"... all men are created equal ..."

Men are not created equal, they are very different from the start,

Consider 5 siblings who are adopted by (or dumped on) randomly chosen
families spread around the world with no selection for wealth or
fitness of their adoptive families. What fraction of their differences
after a generation would be attributable to their differences when they
were born?

There has been a study of identical twins raised apart;
their similarity was great, even greater than expected.
One must conclude that genetics is important.

the live very different lifes, serve different gods or none at all,
have different family structures, if they have families at all...

Would these siblings' different lives, different gods and different
family structures be attributable to their differences at the start?

One of these pairs included someone raised as an Orthodox
Jew and another raised as a Nazi. Again, the similarities
were great.

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Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
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  • Re: Racism
    ... Consider 5 siblings who are adopted by randomly chosen ... fitness of their adoptive families. ... have different family structures, if they have families at all... ...
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  • Re: Racism
    ... Consider 5 siblings who are adopted by randomly chosen ... fitness of their adoptive families. ... have different family structures, if they have families at all... ...
    (sci.lang)