Adam Rutherford: The genetics of skin colour 

long as it's anti-European it is not racist

#ItsOKToBeWhite

I love being white and I love my fellow white people.

I'm going to buy this book, I need the 'right tools' for when I have a conversation with David lammy.

If you are born in a stable it doesn't make you a horse. If I was born in Japan, that does not make me Japanese. It makes me an English man in Japan.

I'm proud to be Chinese, said the Chinaman. I'm proud to be Latino, said the Mexican. I'm proud to be white, said the racist.

Damn, pushing that propaganda real hard. You know their trying to repair those holes in the dam when they're rapid firing with that propaganda lately.

If I was born in Nigeria to the British ambassador of Nigeria , that wouldn’t make me Nigerian. I’d be an Englishman in Nigeria. This isn’t hard folks. It’s not rocket science.

It sounds like he is saying that race exists, but it doesn't mean anything so we should ignore it.

Remember, folks, despite the fact that human populations evolved in relative isolation from one another over enormous periods of time, and often in response to drastically different environmental selection pressures, WE ARE ALL THE SAME!

It's ok to have skin

your surroundings influence you and help shape your identity. Your genes have certain properties that can manifest differently in different surroundings.

Culture is downstream from race, therefore race is not a social construct. Race Realism folks...........we are not all the same.

@7.56 ''What does it mean to British''. OK then Adam,but will you also ask; ''What does it mean to be Jewish??

So......it is still not explaining why on 100 meter sprint I just see black folkes. Why no Koreans?

"anti-racists" always purposefully confuse two things. One, the fact that different races exist with different characteristics. Two, that agreeing with point one means that you are against other races or think some are superior than others. There is no doubt that there are different races, this has been proved scientifically time and time again. Different races even have different bone structures.

We were never asked

This idea that race is just about skin color, totally ridiculous. Consider the golfer Vijay Singh, he's much darker than Tiger woods (both brilliant players btw) but no one would consider Singh to be black.

Brilliant discussion.

Great interview!

He's just another Race Grifter ! What a load of nonsense.

Point of correction! Kim Collins won with a time above 10 seconds long after 1980.

So, how long have dark-skin people been in Africa? How does the hair texture and lips change over time?

Watching all his videos now. A very wise and down to earth man as well as learned.

Very interesting x

Classic case of he protests too loudly.....

#TheBellCurve Was that book a thing..?

If there's one thing to give C4 credit for, is not disabling the comments and like/dislike ratio.

Good thing there are so many qualified evolutionary biologists in the comment section.

How is it a lie to say that people of African decent dominate sprinting (among many other sports)? Please explain.

Race is real, stop denying evolution.

The book ought to be titled 'how to make money from exploiting the fake accusation of 'racism'

thank you. I've thought for many years that IQ tests are cultural, and yes about the prioritising abstract thinking, but I'm not a scientist... My Ma was a rare working class pupil at grammar school and she said she practised with IQ tests and got better. I've never fully done one but found them a bit pointless and didn't get anywhere with them, but I have achieved education to MA level. there's the great book: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Like the phrase "Scientific activism"!

Great video! I love science, especially biology.

Race is just about relatedness. That's all it is. We care more about our closer relatives than we do of those who are less closely related. The host shows his lack of understanding at about 11.45 in the video. Inbreeding is more or less the basis of race. There's nothing rude about it!

It's funny how the dislike numbers have dropped here from the 190's to the 170's in the last 15 minutes?

That's true socio-economic factors are huge influencer of our being. Those who have will turn out well and those who lack them end up not doing well in life. The African continent is what it is because of the meddling of POWERS FROM developed countries because these countries have EMBOLDEN THEM TO BE CORRUPT HENCE THE POOR LIVING STANDARDS of the local people. ITS THE GOOD OLD DIVIDE LOOT AND RULE.

O man its so clear the sheer intent of these people

Great interview and good to hear Rutherford talk, am currently reading the book, really helpful to one who knows nothing about genetics and wants to argue with casual racists.

I have one more reason to say that race is real. Race is a dumb word to use, but it's well embedded in our lexicon by now, so race it is. It's real that the darker someone's skin is in majority white places, the more that person suffers in ways that are well documented in research. Interactions with law enforcement, in the workplace, Black mothers especially as they die in childbirth at a greater rate than lighter skinned people, and they experience more negative outcomes in general across almost all areas of life. So for politicians representing those areas who say that race is a construct and if we stop talking about it, it will go away and it's our fault for talking about it, to them I say, you damn well BETTER start seeing color and they better keep seeing it as long as Black women and others continue to die at rates much higher than with whites in the same situations, same facilities, same country, etc., with no medical or physical or skin-color-related reason for it.

Pink?

Question.... Can color be altered by hormonal treatment ie genetic engineering? Can ppl change skin eye hair color by taking hormones? Have racists been suppressing research into skin color in order to maintain racism?

Great interview! Will buy the book!

For a guy who doesn't like negative characteristics associated with race he certainly abandons that quickly when discussing white europeans.

Does he ever address directly the arguments of racists. I need ammo against them. (Such as average IQ being different between races). He seems to talk but say nothing at all!

In the human genome sequences, there exist of 2 main pigment components called Dark melanin (Eumelanin) and the paler called pheomelanin. All beings have it in them to be ALL colors. We all have the same genes and there genes will express themselves in terms of physical traits depending on the environment. What causes human skin to take on a specific color has nothing to do with them being different races. The whole different races thing is completely false by the way. A human beings skin color is determined by where they live. All human beings need sunlight. The two lowest sub-dermal layers of your skin contains a light reactive substance called dehydrocholesterol. 7-dehyrocholesterol contains inactive forms of vitamin D1 and D2. When sunlight hits the skin and the 7-dehydrocholesterol, it’s molecular structure changes the inactive D1 and D2 into active D3 or cholecalciferol. D3 is used to process calcium which is used to repair bones, joints, cartilage and smooth surface in your veins and arteries called the endothelium. The endothelium is your immune system’s communication system and provides a smooth surface for the blood to flow through. Without proper amounts of calcium your bones will soften (called rickets) and your immune system will begin to crumble. When people are in hot climates they produce more eumelanin (DARK MELANIN) and less pheomelanin to protect the skin and hair from sunlight.Hence the reasons of AFROS. Afros also expand in a 360 outward direction synonymous to the sun, it’s what keeps the person cool under the sunlight. In place where it’s cold , they drop the dark melanin and produce more pheomelanin. This is because in order to make the vitamin D3, the human animal needs sun and in those areas lighter skin allows for the taking advantage of what available light there is resulting in paler skin colors. Skin color is nothing more than the human body adapting to an environment trigger. I take full pride while being aware my genetic and anatomical structure is superior biologically since Blacks are the original and first dwellers of Earth

even a social construct has a biological basis to it, but then he goes on to babble

18:20 I'm glad he debunked those ancestry/ dna tests. 21:20

This is BS. The concept of race and ethnicity occurred way before white superiority and eugenics. People who say it's a new concept are wrong. Tribes of differing phenotypes (genetic traits), thousands of years ago, would have understood they are of a different heritage/ethnic origin than those that had differing traits, like skin colour, eyes, hair, size etc etc.

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This is utter nonsense. He contradicts himself less than two minutes it when he says ‘of course there is a biological basis to social constructs.’ Cool so race exists and it’s genetic. Thanks.

How about you debate Ed Dutton mr big brain?

Beethoven was black which is what he didn’t know

Europeans have a lot to be proud of. I know first hand that many of my people agree.

This guy calls himself a geneticist. But what he really is is an ideologue who's only interested in deconstructing European Identities. But makes a fool of himself while trying to do so. For example he tried to deconstruct British/English identity by bringing up the Roman invasions... while forgetting that the Romans left absolutely no detectable genetic lineage in Britain. We are a north-west European nation and this island has always been the home to Northwest-Europeans.

Two racists meet in a room

Did you know Rutherford's big argument against the idea of ethnic indigeneity (of the British, but we suppose everyone) is that the Beaker folk largely replaced the hunter gatherers (the darker skinned group that Cheddar Man came from) 4,400 years ago and therefore "no country, people, political power or border is permanent" (book quote). So you were newcomers 4,000 years ago British people, you have no claim to Britain ㋡ This is the intellectual calibre of the writer and by extension his whole oeuvre, including this most recent book, now getting free advertising by C4.

Proud to be white!

Wow ! So many negative comments about this interview, get a grip people. Dr Rutherford new book is amazing, we needed this book years ago. Keep up the good work adam.

Question for many who have replied in this thread. Do you accept evolution?

The UK 🇬🇧 should clarify who belongs in the United Kingdom but they should also remove Charlie before the real English clean house.

Swim is essential for every human.

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Blair Peach wasn't murdered. He died of death by misadventure, while taking part in a riot.

No black classical composers? Samuel Coleridge Taylor.

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Mr. Rutherford is quite fixated or frozen in his mind that he is myopic! He should always ask, “what if I am Wrong?

Race is an invention from people that didn´t know better, like religions.

Great stuff

"Wishes they had this book at Christmas"... me too I ran out of toilet paper at one point.

He's wrong, read Lewontins Fallacy by Edwards. There is differences between populations that have a genetic basis, even if most of human genetic diversity is found within populations, a small percentage is found across geographic populations and that is what people consider "race" or "ethnicity". Ultimately, the racial differences, ie the phenotypes/traits that the various different people have of the globe, are genetic adaptations to the varying climates/environments (skin for UV, nose for air temp, eye changes for UV, temp or dust differences, body size, head size, bone density, blood types to fight different diseases), OR some of the genetic changes are random mutations to do with sexual selection and not specifically adaptations to the environment. But to claim these phenotypical differences are not real or don't correlate closely among geographic populations is pure wokerati BS. Hence it is way more fairer to say that race in that sense (small genetic trait differences across geographic populations) does exist and is real, even if its a tiny part of the total genome.

I down voted this and I also down voted UNWAShED

Inherent flaws in logic. Justifying not being a snowflake. Judging charisma seems to be judging intent.

Ask him to explain the great success of Europeans and why Africans have never come close to our technological advances.

Sherlock Holmes would think the Hound of the Baskervilles had come to haunt him in his grave.This guy is BARKING.

Confirmation bias is a thing, just incase anyone wants to understand the comments to this video...

Very racist content

I'm happy to teach people to be kinder to one another and to try to ignore race. As long as our leaders agree to keep the native English a majority in their country. If not, I can't help but feel we're being prepped for our replacement which is unacceptable. Also, I'm happy that you agreed on Iq levels. No one really cares about bone density and fast twitch muscle fibers.

It’s awesome to be white 👌

I’m not impressed with this perspective as it’s very insulting to us superior Europeans. Why are you in the UK 🇬🇧 ? Who invited you to invade the country?

Absolutely fantastic interview. Imagine what life would be like without racism and bigotry.

I love how mad these videos make the "race realists"

Look at all the BNP/EDL scum going mental in the comments 🤢🤢