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[OBG] Nature of Race Full
The categorization is superficial because there is no use of it


The concept/construct which I call "race" is more or less equivalent to the concept/construct which population geneticists call "biogeographic ancestry" group. If there is no use for this, why is it so frequently employed in population genetics and why can I find hundreds of recent admixture mapping studies which examine the association between ancestry with respect to major "biogeographic" groups and medical related outcomes?

Races will eventually intermix and cease to exist as a concept sometime in the distant future.


In the unlikely event of perfect human panmixia, how would the concept/construct per se cease to exist? The concept/construct allows one to express the proposition that "there are presently no human races"; if it, as an epistemic class, ceased to exist, the proposition would be rendered meaningless, equivalent to ""there are presently no agfhddsf", no?

Do you mean, instead: "In the future there will be no distinguishable human biogeographic ancestry groups"? In my assessment, synthetic biology will allow for accelerated divergence and interstellar travel will impose substantial reproductive barriers, so I expect, in the long run, speciation. Do you disagree? If so, why?

Note that I have made all of these points in my paper. Maybe try reading it and after formulating a critique.
There is simply no use in studying biographic ancestral groups or races for that matter. If it were that important, I'm sure scientists would have started categorizing Americans on their polish, irish, german or english ancestry in order to deduce behavior. But of course they don't do that because it's ridiculous. There is no benefit for such studies and is just a waste of research money in attempting to explore this venue especially since we have other problems at hand (global warming ,mental health etc).
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There is simply no use in studying biographic ancestral groups or races for that matter. If it were that important, I'm sure scientists would have started categorizing Americans on their polish, irish, german or english ancestry in order to deduce behavior. But of course they don't do that because it's ridiculous. There is no benefit for such studies and is just a waste of research money in attempting to explore this venue especially since we have other problems at hand (global warming ,mental health etc).


Oh, they do. One can see their ancestry in genomic studies as recently published by 23andme workers.

Bryc, K., Durand, E. Y., Macpherson, J. M., Reich, D., & Mountain, J. L. (2015). The genetic ancestry of African Americans, Latinos, and European Americans across the United States. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 96(1), 37-53.
http://www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-9297%2814%2900476-5

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And others have looked at the socioeconomic relationships of sub-European ancestry. E.g.:

Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010
https://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/bocoec/875.html

Migrants, Ancestors, and Investments
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2711012