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I can agree with that statement in that the idea of race has been historically misleading. It reminds me of the debate among taxonomists concerning whether we should still use the term "reptile" because it actually is not monophyletic, since in order to become so it would have to include birds. Proponents for the term claim the word reptile is still highly descriptive, however unscientific it is in light of what we know today.
Although race isn't perfect, it stills tells you a lot about an individual. Its just a rough and tumble way of grouping phenotypes. If it weren't at least somewhat useful, it would have been discarded long ago
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