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Race: myth for the classification of human variability
Sládek, Vladimír
There is long history to use race concept and typological approach for classification of human diversity. Since the first use, the race concept is based on presumption that morphology and/or genetic background of living organism offer essential information about their genealogy. This essential information can be studied by race features; the race features are stabile both during the time period and reproductive cycles. Therefore, the race feature can be used to connect reproductive groups. However, evolutionary studies show that static race features are not present in biological organisms. Morphological as well as genetic features changed not only due to functional demand and selective factors but also by stochastic processes as for example by genetic drift. Therefore, a selection of race features to classify human variability is arbitrary process since there is no direct connection between consequent generations.
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