throwaway65512

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   by throwaway65512 7y ago

   It is arbitrary enough as to be utterly irrelevant in modern genomics. Some people cling to it, usually doctors who haven't gotten the memo, old school taxonomists who don't want to let go of their traditional systems, and of cour
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   by throwaway65512 7y ago

   These concern only about a handful of genes that have been the subject of very intense selective pressure and has little to do with how phylogeny classifications are done with entire genomes at large. Not only that, this selective pressur
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   by throwaway65512 7y ago

   As your link points out, and as is widely acknowledged among the phylogeny and popgen communities, there is no single definition of race and the notion is largely discredited in modern classifications.
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   by throwaway65512 7y ago

   That's a false equivalence. Some terms are well-defined in phylogeny, and even among the murkier concepts (like species ) almost all of them are clearer than race which basically covers a hodge-podge of sometimes contradictory con
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   by throwaway65512 7y ago

   What they mean is that race is not well-defined among phylogenists/pop geneticists and thus a largely irrelevant concept to the scientific community at large