[Split Thread] Clades and Biological Definitions of Race

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Posted By:Agatha

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Originally Posted by Lplus (Post 13721725) That's just trying to hand wave obvious physical differences away in a desperate attempt to pretend there's no such thing as a defined race.

Cite a physical trait that leads to a good racial classification.

To make for a good racial distinction a trait has to be confined to a clade. There are very few traits that are like that. The human race is just too interbred. What few traits (Tay Sachs comes to mind) that are like that don't cover many people and are contradicted by other traits.

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