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> we don't share locus of genes that can be used to easily identify us as such

I'm one of the biggest critics when it comes to genetic reductionism, evopsych, etc and I know it's a touchy subject especially considering the terrible events that happened in WW2, and so on, but this is trivial to disprove.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_genetics_of_Jews

> Due to their historical endogamy over the centuries, today's 10 million Ashkenazi Jews can trace their ancestry to members of a population of only 350 individuals who lived about 600–800 years ago

"Endogamy" meaning marrying (and having offspring) within a small isolationist group.



Huh ... the example I used (Tay-Sachs) is an example of this. So I stand corrected. Thank you!

Thank god that the tech to sequence genomes was not available in the 1930s/1940s. Imagine what evil could be done with so much information.




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