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Undertoad · 10-20-2002, 06:51 PM

I doubt there would ever be studies that test for different muscle types in different races. There's no real reason to have such a study, and racial studies are not going to make the top of the list for finding by anyone, public or private.

But there *are* different types of muscle fibre that optimize one for sprinting (as opposed to having endurance), and obviously that's the sort of thing that's likely to have a genetic connection.

It's not a good or bad thing, either, until people start putting prejudice into the mix. A greater number of African-Americans are great cornerbacks, but that has no bearing on whether any one individual is a great cornerback, no matter what their race is.

10-20-2002, 06:51 PM	#14
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I doubt there would ever be studies that test for different muscle types in different races. There's no real reason to have such a study, and racial studies are not going to make the top of the list for finding by anyone, public or private. But there are different types of muscle fibre that optimize one for sprinting (as opposed to having endurance), and obviously that's the sort of thing that's likely to have a genetic connection. It's not a good or bad thing, either, until people start putting prejudice into the mix. A greater number of African-Americans are great cornerbacks, but that has no bearing on whether any one individual is a great cornerback, no matter what their race is.