>>12388868>There used to beWhen? I'd love for you to look up that widely-accepted number of human races.
>>12389971Actually, I have repeatedly asked people in thread for a definition of race, any definition, and no one has given me one. You didn't either. You just left a sarcastic response like "oh, of course there is a definition of race that corresponds to this," but you can't give me one. Why?
>Not all Haplogroups are defined by the Y chromosomeThey all come from either the Y-chromosome or the mitochondria. Mitochondrial DNA mutates much faster. In either case, what you get is *not* the racial categories people normally come up with. For instance, people from South America are more closely related to people from the U.S. than they are to people from Mexico. People from North Africa are more related to people from Europe than they are to non-Cushitic people from central Africa. Moreover, these haplogroups only account for a tiny amount of variation. There is far more genetic variation between individuals within a race than between them.
So we have,
(1) Nobody here has given me a list of races, number of races, method of determining a distinction between races, or author that could give me one of those,
(2) Human variation is clinal, not cladal, and
(3) Modern scholarship rejects the existence of clinically or anthropologically meaningful races, let alone taxonomic races.
>Listen, "haplogroup" just means groups of people that are descended from one person.No. A haplogroup is the group descended *through the male line* from one man or *through the female line* from one woman. I am related to my father's mother, but we are not necessarily in any of the same haplogroups. You are thinking of a clade.
Your "citation," incidentally, is a graphic from Wikipedia they don't even use anymore.
My source:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC515312/pdf/0141679.pdf.
