| PSintend0 said: Here is a study about finnish people: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0003519 Here are few things that can be found from it: "once again illustrating how most of the human genetic variation is found between individuals instead of populations" " In fact, the differences between Eastern and Western Finns were of the same magnitude as the differences between Swedes and British, and much stronger than those between British and Germans. Thus, relevant units of genetic variation often do not correspond to preconceived political, linguistic or even cultural borders." "Our results warn against a priori assumptions of homogeneity among Finns and other seemingly isolated populations." |
Could you state what argument you are trying to support utilizing that study?
By my reading, it echoes the same trends that are found within more geographically distinct populations. More variation between individuals than populations. Often, two individuals within separate populations are more similar than two individuals within the same populations. And to support the distinction between Finns and other populations, there is a " strong population structure within Finland, and a small but significant differentiation between all the populations."
| PSintend0 said: "I ask you too. If we can successfully trace ancestry between France and Finnland, does that mean the French and the Finnish are of different races?" Maybe finnish people can be divided into two races and german/british/french can all be part of the same race ;D |
Sounds good to me. Now, we only need to break apart every other groups which I estimate will leave our number of "geographical races" at around 500 (give or take). Now, the SAT may have to be made a bit larger to include all of those options, but I'm sure it will all be worth it in the end.
