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Eilan (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} eilan) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} otf_wank, |
Re: Anthropology break
Numerous surveys of genetic variation among populations around the world indeed show that about 85 percent of the total genetic variation occurs between individuals within a given population, far more than the 15 percent or so in members of different populations. However, this does not mean, as is sometimes inferred, that individuals of the same race exhibit greater variation than people of different races.
As far as I understand it, the 'variation' in the last sentence does refer to genotype and not phenotype.
Numerous surveys of genetic variation among populations around the world indeed show that about 85 percent of the total genetic variation occurs between individuals within a given population, far more than the 15 percent or so in members of different populations. However, this does not mean, as is sometimes inferred, that individuals of the same race exhibit greater variation than people of different races.
As far as I understand it, the 'variation' in the last sentence does refer to genotype and not phenotype.
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