The Myth of Race and Varna!
Most people agree that all humans belong to the same species -- but some insist that we belong to different "races". This is often done in a flippant manner, without defining what is a "race", in a biological sense. There are many "average" differences between Tamil Brahmins as group and a Kashmiri Brahmins as a group. Can these average differences be used to categorize them as belonging to different races (in a biological sense)? What can be the threshold of "biological difference" that would place a person in one "race" rather than in another? Biology has NOT found such a definable threshold. What about dog "breeds"? Why are these breeds NOT called dog "races"? Different breeds of dogs have huge differences in external appearance, size, intelligence etc. (much more so than between African humans and Caucacian humans). Yet, all dog breeds are biologically grouped in the same biological category. Whereas different gr...