Jack comments on Open Thread: May 2010 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Jack 01 May 2010 05:29AM

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Comment author: Jack 01 May 2010 10:22:47PM 1 point [-]

Concepts like species, subspecies and faimily are also constructs that are just about as arbitrary as race.

This is a matter of much dispute and a lot of confusion. See here.

Comment author: kim0 02 May 2010 12:52:36PM 3 points [-]

I wondered how humans are grouped, so I got some genes from the world, and did an eigenvalue analysis, and this is what i found:

http://kim.oyhus.no/EigenGenes.html

As you can see, humans are indeed clustered in subspecies.

Comment author: Jack 02 May 2010 06:27:38PM 0 points [-]

This doesn't demonstrate subspecies.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 May 2010 10:37:09PM *  1 point [-]

Thanks for the link, I'm reading it now.

I just want to clear up that I'm refering to species and subspecies in the biological sense in that sentence and family in the ordinary every day sense not to the category between order and genus.