Sex and Race: Handling the Ideological Hot Potatoes | Jerry Coyne at CSICon 2024

[smartcooky]

that is a very silly argument, and it is wrong: depending on the upbringing, pets can very clearly identify as a different species than their own, adopting characteristics of the other pets in the household.
Human-centric chauvinism is very rarely anything other than lack of observation.

This is complete BS. When a cat behaves like a dog in a home environment, that is learned behaviour, usually, and often inadvertently, encouraged by the owner. It is not a behaviour brought about by the cat having a predisposition to behave like a dog.
When people claim that their cat is vegan (and some do) do you think that dietary choice is being made by the cat or the owner?

 

[d4m10n]

He is not talking about who your ancestors were. He is talking about the population.

The population came from somewhere; Coyne says how at around 16 minutes into the lecture when making the claim that "there are no exceptions" to the gametic binary in animals.

 

[d4m10n]

Deleted, so as to not fall foul of Darat's post above.

I wonder what is left on topic now. Like, um, race science?