Biological male runner wins women's 1,500m event in Canada
(thepostmillennial.com)
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Interestingly, nearly all the "Kenyan" marathon winners are actually ethnic Kalenjin. The statistical likelyhood of this without a massive racial genetic advantage to explain it is as close to zero as it can get. And it keeps getting closer to zero with better training of these athletes.
Once professional trainers for big marathons / olympics worldwide can get their hands on Kalendjin athletes, all marathons will be won by them.
But "race is totally a social construct around melanin, it's a pseudoscience!".
I'm not sure your comment actually supports the point that dividing people into "black" and "white" races is "scientific". Rather, it suggests that race is much more nuanced than being able to simply divide people by skin colour, that is, there are many races of people who share similar skin colour who would have different attributes on average.
It dosen't, because it isn't. Race is alot more than skin color, and sharing skin color dosen't mean being the same race.
Sub-Saharian Africa is home to several different races. The Congo Pygmies are more genetically distant from the neighbouring Bantus, than Bantus are from Europeans.
Fair enough. That's what I thought you meant with the first part of your comment, but the last line referencing melanin threw me off.