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Re:Cultural differences may leave their mark on DNA by r00fus on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @03:18PM (#13368552)
At what point does someone become "black" or "asian"?

Or are you talking about biological differences as they correlate with geographic locality?

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Re:Cultural differences may leave their mark on DNA by SilasX on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @03:47PM (#13368822)
You can play Sorites Paradox[1] with anything; doesn't mean the categories don't exist, or that they don't carve reality at important joints.

"Heaps don't exist because you can't prove an ironclad boundary between heaps and non-heaps."

"Tallness isn't a thing because you don't have a firm, binary definition of when someone is tall."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox

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