Yeah, that totally makes sense to me. And getting back to your original point, some of the modern sense of race is pretty unsophisticated, like "people with da

Yeah, that totally makes sense to me. And getting back to your original point, some of the modern sense of race is pretty unsophisticated, like "people with dark skin". That encompasses many distinct populations. But I think older racial thinking was actually more nuanced, and would consider many different attributes when categorizing "races", which maps pretty well to distinct populations, which maps pretty well to stuff like PCA. E.g., I suspect the thinking that went into something like like this https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/arts/design/races-of-mankind-sculptures-long-exiled-return-to-display-at-chicagos-field-museum.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/arts/design/races-of-mank... did not consider the entierty of Africa as one race.