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Race

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An ethnic stock or division of humans.

Naturalists and ethnographers have long divided humans into a variable number of distinct races.

However, DNA and other genetic studies have revealed that that most genetic variation, about 94%, is within so-called racial groups while these racial groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes.

This means that there is greater genetic variation within racial groups than between them.

The concept of race is a superficial and subjective one.

All of humankind is a single species

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