I consider Dr. Sharad Paul one of God's greatest gifts to humanity and am proud to know him personally. I hope his kindness and care spread to all those who hear or meet him.
@@griffincontracting It's not just humans, differentiation is the hallmark of intelligence, even machine intelligence or businesses. Whereever you have intelligence you will have increasingly higher resolutions of differentiation which aides the intelligence in making choices.
I say this all the time too. Although it would be much more difficult as I think the reason we divide based on skin color is because it’s so glaring and obvious, whereas things like eye color are not.
He only means the names and divisions are made up. The genetics are not. You can tell if someone has common ancestry based on genetics, which is what people refer to when saying race.
@@dyloak6450 "Race" is based on phenotypical traits. "Ancestry" is an entirely different thing. Therefore, by your word, "race" doesn't exist, which is entirely true. At most DNA can tell someone's common ancestry, but even then, it's very difficult to discern. Humans are virtually all the same.
@@infinitekaister Nope…. race is based on common ancestry not purely what you look like. You just aren’t used to mixed race people. For example, I’m polynesian, asian, and white. None of that has to do with what I look like. But, people can see them in my appearance once I tell them. It’s not purely based on how you look…. it’s about common ancestry. I have common ancestry with other filipino people, who have common phenotypes.
@@infinitekaister here’s the definition if you are wondering: “common ancestry of a group of humans who shared characteristics that had developed over time.” Biologically race is purely common ancestry represented through genetics. I should know, I’ve studyied genetics: “the scientific study of genes and heredity-of how certain qualities or traits are passed from parents to offspring as a result of changes in DNA sequence.”
This made the need for sunlight, calcium, and vitamin D much easier to understand. Because of this I looked into vitamin D deficiencies, and it was quite an insight for me. The part about diet playing a big part could explain why there are random white colored groups in parts of the world you wouldn't expect.
Absolutely correct, the myth of race has not served humanity well. But unfortunately, human nature is such, they'd find another reason to hate. Poverty also has nothing to do with it. Anyone can end up poor. Most people just a paycheck away from being homeless - or a freak accident away from becoming disabled.
With all due respect, I suggest that human nature is no less a myth than race. We are all only the products of the environments in which we are raised. We are not born knowing hate or racism or even love. They are all learned from our parents and the others around us. Our various different cultures gives each of us morals and values of whatever culture we happen to be born into. Where you happen to plop out of the womb has a profound effect on the opportunities available to you as you begin life. Consider that today still, 2 of every 3 humans on Earth must live on less than $10 per day and I assure you that is not by choice. Poverty has everything to do with it, not nothing.
What a great speaker and talk by Sharad Paul. He explains why people are all the same colour but it the lack of vitamin D that alters what colour they become.
All those who feel superior by their skin color, start watching this but are unable to concentrate for too long and end up talking about the superiority of Tom Brady and the Super Bowl😵💫
I have always believed racism is simply ignorance. This man proves that point. Any intelligent person can see the foolishness in judging a person by their skin color.
The concept of race are complicated and contains both outliers and deviants. Just like the colour "blue", no one defines it exactly the same and its probbalby impossible to do so. We still use the concept of blue. Haplogroup might be a better and more discribing term than race...
Becoming a globular, connected species, isn't it inevitable that humans will become so 'mixed' as to leave the concept of 'race' behind? Well, I guess we'll still be able to fuss at each other over XX vs. XY?
The concept of race is from a prescientific age when we didn’t know a damn thing about evolutionary biology, anthropology, chemistry, or any other scientific discipline. It’ll take a while for it to go away, but it will eventually.
Actually, the myth of race was invented by Europeans as a way to explain their innate "superiority" over other people. Before them, there were no races. It was only "nationality". How can you group together an entire continent as one human "race", it doesn't make sense and isn't supported biologically.
It's not a myth. It's a beautiful and observable phenomenon, and it is not observable in an indirect or difficult way, it is easily observable for everybody. The debate on expelling the word 'race' from our vocabulary is not based in science and empirical evidence, it is based in feelings and emotions about the word, the unspeakable word. And race is not limited to the colour of your skin!
It's been invented by humans though, humans do not neatly fit into 5 or 6 separate races, the actual biology shows we're all on a spectrum. We'd do just fine without this concept, this is not an emotional point.
Actually, the myth of race was invented by Europeans as a way to explain their innate "superiority" over other people. Before them, there were no races. It was only "nationality". How can you group together an entire continent as one human "race", it doesn't make sense and isn't supported biologically. You base "race" off of hair texture, hair color, skin color, eye size, and what else? How do those features make a "race", those are just inherited phenotypical traits? What you're saying is illogical and isn't rooted in science.
it hasn't been up for 3 years yet, and also probably people who believe in race will ignore it in order to protect their world view of whatever idea they belive
The things is most of the first creatures could not store calcium well enough so when they died their remains would just be decomposed and disappeared. So, basically they could not be fossilised because most of the fossils we see are calcified remains.
@@bjrnn.2689 God gave the world to Satan in Eden garden to show all mankind that they cannot rule the world and live without God. Kids with blood cancer isn’t big deal for God. Everything is a matter of time.
I’m not getting what he’s saying about dark skinned people and vitamin D. During Covid I’ve read that blacks and Latino’s don’t have enough vitamin D and is one reason they have suffered most in fighting Covid in the USA . But he says polar bears and the Inuit have more than enough Vitamin D. Or I miss heard him. Did hear him say D is a hormone, not a vitamin.
Darker skinned people don't get enough vit D when they move to environments with less UV radiation, e.g. the US (particularly the north). UV is involved in vit D production, light skin allows more 'in'. Skin became lighter over millenia as people migrated north bc it benefitted survival. Inuit though had huge vit D dietary intake so therefore less survival benefit of lighter skin.
When a highly-respected and eloquent scientist takes the time to present us with an extraordinary idea, and all we can do is aim thumbs up or down, find some microdata to refute him, or damn him with "uhh, OK then." What does any of this have to do with what Sharad Paul said. Nothing. But isn't it nice for all of us wankers to get in cyberspace?
People are entitled to there opinion. I definitely didn't hear anything that changes my opinion from years of teaching on races and cultures in school. I think there's an agenda behind this and it far greater than science.
i have no argument with people's right to their own opinions. your teaching experiences and Sharad's theories are equally valid points of view. As to him having an agenda which invalidates his science and makes his opinion less valid than yours suggests a problem, Wilbur. Maybe you have an agenda too. Most of us who have a working, critical faculty have opinions, points of view, agendas, or whatever you want to call them. But a working, critical faculty is impossible unless it is capable of suspending prejudice long enough to just enjoy someone else's mind. Relax. Enjoy all the sometimes dissonant music @@wilburmcbride8096
@@dennisrichards4722 Also, I study a lot of other scientists works and some I agree with and some I don't. But, I give people the benefit of doubt. Also, I don't understand why people get so offended by this argument. Do you believe everything the doctor tells you, or do you have your own mind? If you sit down and look at all of the information that these scientists researched. You will find many different hypothesis. Many of them overlap each other, but they still have to make a scientific conclusion.
I don't encourage you to religion. In fact, science is the base of my world view but be aware! Do not look at science as you looked at religion. The core of scientific thinking is critical thinking. All this, just to say that racism and the idea of whites being the superior race was entirely based on science. Thanks for the video.
@@subhiawad8501 thanks to the globalization most people arw mixed. Not all people though. There are still groups where the race is more or less pure. Even if we got all mixed in certain point that doesn't mean race didn't existed in the past. Tell me why race exists for dogs or any other animal but not for humans??
@@frankmill5172 good points. If you really had all these subspecies wouldn't be able to have blood transfusions or bone marrow transfers or literally change our organs
@@pablobedoya5903 Here's some logic: Races don't exist for dogs either, not biologically ...all canis lupus familiaris, no sub-sub taxonomic distinctions for Great Danes or Poodles, all the same biologically and taxonomically:p As with dogs, humans are simply not biologically diverse enough for us to be different races regardless of how superficially different we may appear to be. With humans everyone is related to someone else a bit farther away until you find that humanity exists on a gradient, not sharply distinguished categories of race. It's always been this way.
G. Lowenklee Excellent answer. The people who still believe in this worldview do so for political and social meaning. Race has always been a socio political term masquerading as something inherent.
Race is as real in humans as with any other living thing,… and it relates to geographical morphological history, genetic clustering, and how genes express themselves in peoples. Your mention of skin color, Darwin, sociological problems, hate, love,…. show's your on the wrong track of thought,… you're on a sociological agenda of denying differences of human history as it shows in historical population genetic morphologies, which are distinctly different from other populations.
It may help if people whose primary language is not "English" would make an effort to speak a littler slower, we could understand everything they say. Most Intelligent people would welcome a little constructive "critique".
See that map? There is no one in North and South America. It supports the idea that indigenous people migrated through the Bering Strait, a myth presented by The Catholic Church that Indigenous are son's of Shem, Mongoloid's. That no one was here is a myth intending to erase the original people from history so that colonization can occur. To debate the humanity of the original people by the Church and Empires only facilitated colonization and colonialism. That is the origin of race as decreed by Papal Bull 1493, Alexander VI. This guy may need to revisit his research because his talk perpetuates the myth of race. The whole talk has lost all credibility.
@@mateo61323 yeah I guess the scientific Community forgot about that Sickle Cell Anemia Gene, you know the one that only affected an isolated race of people until it spread through the population with gene flow, yeah I have an idea of which position is based on science
@@maverick9708 The sickle cell trait was not isolated to a "race" of people but is geographically defined to areas where Malaria is present. The sickle-cell trait is believed to be protective against malaria. Thus, sickle-cell disease is at its highest frequency in West Africans and people of West African descent. But this trait is not common in other regions of Africa, where malaria is not as prevalent. Therefore, it is not an “African” disease. Sickle cell also appears in other regions of the globe, in other human populations, including populations in the Mediterranean Basin, the Arabian Peninsula, and on the Indian subcontinent, where these populations also saw this adaptation to resist malaria.
Stopped watching when the guy said "our one human race'. I take it that TED doesn't vet these story tellers before they permit them; or it doesn't care about it's own image as a quality source of information.
@@kayluvsexy "Fairy tale". Don't make me laugh. It's called rationality. Don't tell me you couldn't pick out a Swede on a plane full of Chinese. If you can't you are blind; and if you can then tell me how you can if there is only one race.
@@straighttalking2090 do you understand what ethnic diversity is? Do you understand what the concept of race was? How come that concept race Never existed until after trans Atlantic slavery? When you answer those questions, then you will understand what it means to have a social divide. Biology doesn't have any difference in our species. Ok? Human beings are one species not multiple species' hence no different race. I hope that is clear.
@@kayluvsexy The only clear thing in your comment is your confusion. Do you actually know the biological definitions of species and subspecies and races? What makes you think there was no concept of race before trans-Atlantic slavery? Do you think the Romans and Greeks had no concept of 'race'? Do you think gravity was not real before some human had a 'conception' of gravity? So if biology has "no difference in our species" how could you spot a Swede on a plane full of Chinese? I note that you didn't answer that question - too hard for you? You have not thought this through for yourself. Scientists have no problem defining numerous races in hundreds of thousands of species but you seem to think that humans are somehow removed from the process of evolution while all other species are subject to it. Is that what you think? That humans haven't evolved? That we aren't evolving?
personally, dont even need to give me sources. I just want to hear the counters. I can do my own research. I just hope you can do research also, that doesnt JUST fit into YOUR wishes
