2017: (Baker Rotimi and Shriner Confirming That Race Is Not an Objective Genomic Classifier — A 2017 Study in Scientific Reports by Baker Rotimi and Shriner …

2017: (Baker Rotimi and Shriner Confirming That Race Is Not an Objective Genomic Classifier — A 2017 Study in Scientific Reports by Baker Rotimi and Shriner Demonstrating That Human Ancestry Correlates with Language Rather Than Race and That Race Is Not an Objective Genomic Classifier, Confirming Through Genomic Analysis What Linguists and Anthropologists Had Long Argued — That the Racial Categories Inherited from Nineteenth-Century Pseudoscience Have No Basis in Human Biology and That Linguistic and Cultural History Not Skin Color Explains the Distribution of Human Genetic Variation): A 2017 study in *Scientific Reports* by Jennifer L. Baker, Charles N. Rotimi, and Daniel Shriner demonstrated that human ancestry correlates with language rather than race and that race is not an objective genomic classifier. The study confirms through genomic analysis what Ehret and other linguists and anthropologists had long argued on independent grounds: that the distribution of human genetic variation tracks linguistic and cultural history — patterns of migration, intermarriage, and community formation — rather than the racial categories inherited from nineteenth-century pseudoscience. The finding is particularly relevant to Africa, where the genetic diversity of human populations is greater than anywhere else on earth, and where the attempt to sort that diversity into racial categories has produced nothing but confusion and harm. The Nilo-Saharan-speaking peoples of the Sudan belt, the Cushitic-speaking peoples of the Horn of Africa, the Niger-Congo-speaking peoples of West and Central Africa, the Khoisan-speaking peoples of southern Africa — these communities are genetically diverse within themselves and overlap with one another in ways that make racial classification meaningless. What unites them into linguistically and culturally coherent groups is not biology but history — the shared histories of migration, settlement, and cultural exchange that Ehret has been documenting throughout this book. Ancestry correlates with language because language is transmitted through social history, and social history — not skin color — is what shapes the genetic architecture of human populations.