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Originally Posted by British-Conservatism
"3 million Basque with a separate language and culture who mate among themselves preodominantly have specific markers, on a by and large but not absolute manner, be named as a race"
Indeed this just shows how far racial differences go.
The general separation in several geographic races is based on them being closer genetically than the others.
It's worth taking a look at the genetic frequency tables to see who our closest and most distant genetic relatives are.
The Germans and the Danes being our closest and the West African Pygmy the most distant.
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The variation is continuous, not discrete, hence genetic does not support entities such as "geographical race".
Note that there is always a chance for an English man to have more in common in alleles than a non-English man as compared to his fellow English men.
The variation within socially known population such as English population, Danish population and West African population is far greater than variation cross these groups.
Thats why to say geographical race exist, supporters need to come up with a very restricted biological definition with abstract statistical significance to create mathematical stratification with "selected alleles". It can still be done but it will lose most its meaningfulness either socially or biologically.