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You were wrong, Hitler!

The Aryan race project turned out
to be a myth ... According to the
DNA map, 99% of human beings'
genes, be they from white, black or
oriental races, are identical.

Two young blacks hanged
in 1902, for being members
of a different race. In the
21st century, however, it
has been realized that in
biological terms, there are
no differences between
races.

greater than that between Africans and Melanesians. However, sub-Saharan Africans and Melanesians re-
semble each other in many ways, sharing dark skin, hair texture, and cranial-facial features. Though these

features are typically used in describing a race, these populations resemble each other very little, geneti-
cally speaking. This finding, Templeton states, shows that "racial traits" are not observed in the genes. 59
In their book The History and Geography of Human Genes, population geneticists Luca Cavalli-Sforza,
Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza arrive at the following conclusion:

Once the genes for surface traits such as coloration and stature are discounted, the human "races" are remark-

ably alike under the skin. The variation among individuals is much greater than the differences among
groups. 60

Time magazine's analysis of their book had this to say:

In fact, the diversity among individuals is so enormous that the whole concept of race becomes meaningless at
the genetic level. The authors say there is "no scientific basis" for the theories touting the genetic superiority of
any one population over another... Despite the difficulties, the scientists made some myth-shattering discover-

ies. One of them jumps right off the book's cover: a color map of world genetic variation has Africa on one end
of the spectrum and Australia on the other. Because Australia's aborigines and sub-Saharan Africans share such
superficial traits as skin color and body shape, they were widely assumed to be closely related. But their genes
tell a different story. Of all humans, Australians are most distant from the Africans and most closely resemble

their neighbors, the southeast Asians. 61

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