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Comment by klodolph

That’s factually incorrect—there’s not actually a significant amount of genetic divergence between racial groups.

There’s a saying—if you pick two chimpanzees in the same forest, you are likely to find more genetic differences than if you pick two humans on opposite sides of the world. Genetic diversity within a given racial group is much larger than the genetic differences between different racial groups, which makes it very difficult (at best) to come up with some kind of genetic criteria for defining race.

parent klodolph 3 years ago

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