Instead of treating race as looks or a pure social construct, the article argues it is fundamentally about who appears in your family tree (genealogical ancestry). This frame explains why 'English' vs 'Irish' could be meaningful historically despite limited visual distinguishability and why American visual sorting confuses surface cues with lineage.
— Defining race as ancestry clarifies debates in identity politics, medicine, genetics, and census policy by separating genealogy from phenotype and rhetoric.
2025.10.07
82% relevant
The article argues race is a biological phenomenon that tracks patterned genetic differences aligned with popular categories—i.e., ancestry—mirroring the idea that race is fundamentally about who appears in one’s family tree rather than mere appearance or pure social construction.
Davide Piffer
2025.09.08
60% relevant
The piece adjudicates a claim that interracial parent–child pairs could be 'less related' than co‑ethnic strangers by anchoring relatedness in formal kinship coefficients; it clarifies that genealogical relatedness (parent↔child) overwhelmingly dominates population distance at real‑world FST, reinforcing ancestry‑based understandings of 'race' and kinship.
Steve Sailer
2025.06.04
100% relevant
Sailer: “race is instead obviously about who is in your family tree,” contrasting British 'English/Irish race' usage with American photo-sorting heuristics.
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