What is Race?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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The Most Awkward Proxies for Relatedness
If you divide the world into two, there's one that includes africans and europeans. The other is east asians and americans, oceanas and so on. But these kind of percentages are loosely based on those kind of clusters anyway. So if i am 98 point seven % the same as you, let's say, what does that actually mean? You know, i don't know. Do you really believe they're the kind of sixth race? No. I mean, that would be ridiculousif you wanted separae humanity in that way. It's not clear that a tree is a good representation of that thing.
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