Is there a difference between black and white people, genetically?
The simple answer is no, at least nothing beyond the normal idiosyncrasies of individuals in a population. The police can’t tell whether a suspect is black or white by simply examining DNA left at a crime scene. Scientists have traced the human linage by examining the relative mutation rates of mitochondrial DNA (the mitocondrial DNA only comes from the mother, so it’s a lot easier to trace than genomic DNA which comes from both parents), which supports the out of africa theory by finding that everyone in the rest of the world has as much genetic variation as a single tribe or village in africa. Which is to say the entire world was populated by one single tribe in africa, who one day woke up and decided to follow a funny little strip of land between the mediterranean and red sea. In other words, the traditional categorization of humans into whites, blacks , asians, mexicans, native americans….is meaningless. Instead based on genetic variation, humans would be separated into zulus, af
