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Re:In Amazon Go, no one thinks I'm stealing by zimpenfish on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @11:13AM (#18337296)
> It is abundantly clear

https://www.cell.com/ajhg/pdf/S0002-9297%2818%2930363-X.pdf

"Genetics demonstrates that humans cannot be divided into biologically distinct subcategories."

"Most human genetic variation is distributed as a gradient, so distinct boundaries between population groups cannot be accurately assigned."

etc.etc.

Re:In Amazon Go, no one thinks I'm stealing by deialtrous on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @03:49PM (#18340656)
https://mathildasanthropologyblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/l...

You can only make that claim by examining a single locus. When you examine multiple loci, human populations are clearly separated into distinct groups. The fact that this oft repeated myth is so commonly addressed that it is a named fallacy should be an indication that it warrants a little investigation into its accuracy. Here's a handy graph to help visualize how Lewontin's claim is dishonest and false: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S03069877090053...

If you want to argue about the science, please research the subject first. There's no way anyone could do even a cursory bit of research and not come across this as it has been beaten to death, resurrected, and re-beaten to death.

Re:In Amazon Go, no one thinks I'm stealing by zimpenfish on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @05:08AM (#18344186)
I appreciate that it's a Claim To Authority but I'm going to take the collective word of the American Society of Human Genetics in 2018 over an anthropology student's blog post from 2009 without an astonishing amount of evidence to the contrary.