/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11802586
>You can group humans into very fuzzy categories but most of the time genetic differences are a continuum, not a series of clusters
That never prevented subspecies and species classification in other animals.
>Humans move around too much and breed with out-groups too often for real separation to happen except in a few instances
Quantify this.
>Modern Europeans, for example, are mostly descended from three distinct migratory waves, not a single branch coming off a tree.
So what ?

>>11763852
>>11763839
>>11763808
The only idea these things debunk is that there is clear divisions between races. But its a strawman. No one defends that idea. We all admit that there is continuity between human populations.
But just because there is continuity doesn't mean individuals from Africa are the same group as those from Australia, pic related. Continuity never stopped biologists from classifying populations as different subspecies or even species.

>>11764107
>Take a 'Black' gene and some white people will have it. That's what makes it ambiguous and impossible to define. In your own analogy its as if some 636 frequencies were red, green, and blue sometimes, to call it 'orange' would be pointless
No. In his own analogy, it would be as if some orange lights were 99% 636 and 1% 634. 634 remains red and 636 remains orange regardless of mixing.