"racial divergence" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to describe differences between races or to indicate that people of different racial backgrounds are becoming more distant from one another. For example, you can say "The country has been experiencing a growing racial divergence in recent years."
Although the figures are similar to those for IQ, the response is oddly different: racial divergence, most say, is due to the environment - to poor diet or to smoking.
Ecological and genetic evidence indicates that the racial divergence within these species was produced by differences in the abundance (or degree of protection) of different mimicry rings in different refuges, as have lasted for several thousand years, with the species coming to mimic whichever abundant, protected species was within reach by a single mutation.
The analysis of variance (ANOVA), Duncan's multiple range test (DMRT) and Euclidean absolute distance dissimilarity correlation test were used to record the racial divergence among them.
The FST estimates used for this comparison were based on the average racial divergence in eight microsatellite loci as published by Steane et al. (2006) (FST = 0.09).
It is also unknown whether differences in central adiposity are independent of the age-related racial divergence in total adiposity, and independent of differences in maturational timing between black and white adolescents.
Though the divergence can be overemphasized — with racial connotations that Ms. Sullivan's note carefully acknowledges — the distinctions are still in force.
The divergence in findings may also be explained by racial differences.
Henry Barbour, a lobbyist and a nephew of Gov. Haley Barbour, said this split was due to a genuine divergence in ideology, which happens to line up largely along racial lines.
Since we conclude divergence to have begun in the late 1970s, potential explanations like racial diversity, lack of health insurance and high income inequality in the USA become less plausible.
One can look at the divergences between cancer statistics to see how this works, so that people of the same racial group who grow up in different parts of the world eating different kinds of food, engaging in different amounts of physical exercise and exposed to different environmental factors will have different rates.
An increasing divergence in caries prevalence was found between younger and older adolescents and between individuals of white and all other racial backgrounds.
