每日背誦第四期6
Systems of racial categorization, first developed in the eighteenth century, have divided people into three, nine, twenty-six, and as many as three hundred races. Scientists reject such thinking as myth. They say that geographic patterns of sets of genes show that people have been migrating and merging from the start; race may be heavily tied to culture and how people see one another, but it is something we have created.
首先在18世紀(jì)發(fā)展起來的種族分類體系，將人分為3支、9支、26支，甚至多達(dá)300個(gè)支系種族。科學(xué)家斥之為神話。他們認(rèn)為，各地域基因組合的規(guī)律顯示，人類從一開始 就在遷棲、在結(jié)合；種族可能與文化及人們?cè)鯓酉嗷タ创芯o密的聯(lián)系，但這些不過是我們自行建構(gòu)出來的產(chǎn)物而已。
(短文節(jié)選,本篇始于：性命“憂”關(guān) )
