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Rationally Speaking #112 - Race: Just a Social Construct?

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The Consonant Based Model of Race

If you do statistical analysis on human genetic variation, there is no stable subdivision of races. The only justification Wade has in fact for using his consonant based model of race is that he wants to keep things simple. There's no point at which you can say aha now I reached some kind of stable subdivision. You keep going and then you presumably will find differences between different areas of the same city.

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