{"id":73135,"date":"2012-08-09T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T08:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17685"},"modified":"2012-08-09T00:01:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T08:01:01","slug":"the-law-of-reversion-to-type-as-cultural-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/09\/the-law-of-reversion-to-type-as-cultural-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"The law of reversion to type as cultural illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Does the higher genetic diversity in sub-Saharan Africans explain why mixed children of blacks + other couples usually look more black than anything?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As in, the higher number of genetic characteristics overwhelms those of the other parent and allows them to be present in the child.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But this makes you ask: is the assumption that people with some African heritage tend to exhibit that heritage disproportionately even true? From an American perspective the answer is obviously yes. But from a non-American perspective not always<\/a>. Why? Doe the laws of genetics operate differently for Americans and non-Americans? I doubt t. Rather, hypodescent<\/a>, and its undergirding principle of the “reversion to the primitive type” are still background assumptions of American culture. In fact today black Americans<\/a> are perhaps most aggressive and explicit in outlining the logic and implications of the “one drop rule,” though non-blacks tend to accept it as an operative principle as well.<\/p>\n

Assessing someone’s racial identity has a subjective aspect. We see through the mirror darkly, and that’s a function of the cultural preconditions of gestalt <\/em>cognition. But there are some objective metrics we can look …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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