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Clines, Clusters, and Clades in the Race Debate.

In this paper, I argue against Andreasen and Sesardic, who have both claimed that recent cluster results in population genetics serve as evidence that the human species contains, or at least once contained, subspecies. I show that the cluster results are in fact evidentially inert relative to each a...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 81; no. 5; pp. 1053 - 1066
Autor principal: Kopec, Matthew
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Dec2014
Materias:
Clines
Cladistic analysis
Population genetics
Human population genetics
Human genetics
Human beings
Andreasen, Robin
Sesardic, Neven
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Sumario:In this paper, I argue against Andreasen and Sesardic, who have both claimed that recent cluster results in population genetics serve as evidence that the human species contains, or at least once contained, subspecies. I show that the cluster results are in fact evidentially inert relative to each author's preferred subspecies concept. I then sketch the kinds of biological facts that could be used to push the debate further.