>>11160736Genetic variation within populations does not measure alleles private to that population or adaptive genetic diversity.
Classifying humans as subspecies is quite easy, you can fire up STRUCTURE or plenty of other population clustering software (STRUCTURAMA, AWCLUST etc., or even look at a PCA) and find fairly distinct genetic clusters.
Race is indeed a valid term in biology as it is commonly called "variant", but it is also something of a labile term - being able to be applied to subspecies if wished.
>So you could technically call Africans a different race than Europeans because they live in a different place but that's probably not what you're afterGeneralising populations based on self-selected geographic boundaries (a common one being political boundaries, which makes no sense as species rarely - if ever - adhere to political boundaries) and not on genetic clustering determined by well-proven algorithms speaks more to wanting to fulfil a hypothesis than to test one.
>>11160776Nobody talks about races because you get very noxious elements fixating on them, ignoring selection pressures within environments (no race is clearly "better", just adapted to different microevolutionary pressures).
