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Given the nature of this website this thread seems to be part of it's bread and butter actually, though it would be far less offensive to call it difference in the races rather than superiority, though clearly difference lends itself to different strengths and weaknesses.

To call it all lifestyle is only half true, the nature side of the nurture argument is pretty enormous, different types of muscle, fat mass, bone density, bone shapes and sizes (everything from cranial structure, teeth, jaws, finger length etc), skin thickness, melanin (obviously) different susceptibility to different illnesses, testosterone levels, bone shapes, brain volume, proportions of different areas of the brain, maturation rates, are different in the races in a way that you can categorise.

"(keep in mind that most modern geneticists don't even believe that there is more than one human "race") I really think that in itself is an overly politically correct generalisation. There is no consensus on that it's just the most politically watered down version of it, in the scientific community there are many theories. Alot of the scientific research on the difference in races was actually far too controversial and so much, though not all stopped.

As for the IQ studies one can debate that and it is particularly controversial. Though oddly enough people seem less offended by the fairly widely recorded findings that asian folks tend to be a few IQ points higher than caucasians, regardless of economic or social status. I suspect it's a difference in intelligence rather than superiority, but the idea that people evolving in wholly different environments did not end up with consistent differences in their physicality seems more odd. I can't imagine that Africa, Europe, Asia etc has the same demands on an organism evolving in it, but at the same time I can't imagine any superior to any other either, they would all be demanding.

It is a very potentially offensive topic, but then again it's a shame people can't honestly talk about difference in their entirety to appreciate it in a balanced view, and it works both ways. While people may bat around IQ studies for intellectual superiority, people throw around black athletic superiority on the other side just as frequently due to excelling at basketball, football etc given explosive movements fit the fast twitch muscles of black folks better, but other types of exercise and sport tend to be fairly uniformly distributed among the races in reality, look at the olympics.