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1、PERSPECTIVEConceptualizinghumanvariationSOYKeita1,2,RAKittles1,3,CDMRoyal1,GEBonney1,PFurbert-Harris1,GMDunston1&CNRotimi1Whatistherelationshipbetweenthepatternsofbiologicaland‘Race’isappliedinformaltaxonomytovariationbelowthespeciessocioculturalvariationinextanthumans?Is
2、thisrelationshiplevel.Intraditionalapproaches,substantivelymorphologicallydistinctaccuratelydescribed,orbestexplained,bytheterm‘race’andpopulationsorcollectionsofpopulationsoccupyingasectionofatheschemaof‘racial’classification?Whatistherelationshipspeciesrangearecalledsub
3、speciesandgivenathree-partLatinbetween‘race’,geneticsandthedemographicgroupsofname10.Incurrentsystematicpractice,thedesignation‘subspecies’issociety?Canextanthumansbecategorizedintounitsthatcanusedtoindicateanobjectivedegreeofmicroevolutionarydiver-scientificallybecalled‘
4、races’?Thesequestionsunderliethegence11.Doanyofthehumangroupscalled‘races’,includingthosehttp://www.nature.com/naturegeneticsdiscussionsthataddresstheexplanationsfortheobservedfromtraditionalanthropology,meetthislattercriterion?differencesinmanydomainsbetweennameddemograp
5、hicWearguethatthecorrectuseoftheterm‘race’isthemostcurrentgroupsacrosssocieties.Thesedomainsincludediseasetaxonomicone,becauseithasbeenformalized.‘Race’gainsitsforceincidenceandprevalenceandothervariablesstudiedbyfromitsnaturalscienceroot.Thetermdenotes‘natural’distinctio
6、nsbiologistsandsocialscientists.Here,weofferaperspectiveonandconnotesdifferencesnotsusceptibletochange.Oneisledtoask,understandinghumanvariationbyexploringthemeaningandtherefore,whethereverythingthatiscalleda‘racial’differenceisuseoftheterm‘race’anditsrelationshiptoarange
7、ofdata.Theactuallynatural.‘Racial’differencescarryadifferentweightthancul-questisforamoreusefulapproachwithwhichtounderstandturaldifferences.Intermsoftaxonomicprecisionandbestpractice,humanbiologicalvariation,onethatmayprovidebetterisitscientificallycorrecttoidentifyEurop
8、eanAmericans,Asiansandresearchdesignsandinformpublicpolicy.PacificIslanders,HanChinese,Hispanics
