The Apportionment of Human Diversity
@inproceedings{Lewontin1972TheAO, title={The Apportionment of Human Diversity}, author={Richard C. Lewontin}, year={1972} }
It has always been obvious that organisms vary, even to those pre-Darwinian idealists who saw most individual variation as distorted shadows of an ideal. It has been equally apparent, even to those post-Darwinians for whom variation between individuals is the central fact of evolutionary dynamics, that variation is nodal, that individuals fall in clusters in the space of phenotypic description, and that those clusters, which we call demes, or races, or species, are the outcome of an…
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