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One way we know that races are not real taxonomic categories is:

Members of a race do not have a unique set of genetic or phenotypic characteristics that occur together


Races are social categories


Members of a race share features that are highly concordant


The human species has high FST, like Grey Wolves

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I learnt that, biologically speaking, many scientists believe that there is no such thing as a race. Homo sapiens as a species is only 200,000 years old, which has not allowed for any significant genetic diversification yet, and our DNA is 99.99% similar. I've read statements that there can be more genetic

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