Re: Do black people really have longer Achilles tendons?

Area: Anatomy
Posted By: Samuel Conway, Senior Staff Chemist, Avid Therapeutics,Philadelphia, PA
Date: Mon May 12 14:38:24 1997
Area of science: Anatomy
ID: 859453622.An

Message:

There's no relationship at all between a person's racial background and
the length of the Achilles tendon.  A person who can jump better than 
another person has had more practice, and has built up his leg muscles 
more.

Statements such as this are often used by racists on both sides of the
argument.  Yours was a valid question, though, and no offense was taken!

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