VDare: John Derbyshire on Why Race Realism Makes More Sense Than “Magic Dirt” Theory

I’m a race realist. What does that mean?

It means I don’t doubt that race is a real and important thing; more than that, it’s fundamental to biology.

The foundational text of modern biology is Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,subtitle: “The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle For Life.” By “races” Darwin meant local varieties of a species.

Any widely distributed species exhibits local varieties—races. If local varieties are left alone for long enough, breeding mainly within their local groups, they diverge. If left alone for way long enough, they diverge so far that members of local group A over here can no longer interbreed with members of local group B over there. The different races have then become different species.

That’s the origin of species. That’s what Darwin’s book is about. ...

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