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I. Measuring Human Variation
    A. Biochemical Variation
        1. Blood types and other genetic markers
        2. DNA analysis
    B. Complex Trait Variation
        1. Anthropometrics
        2. Skin color
        3. Other measures
II. The Racial Approach to Variation
    A. The Biological Concept of Race
    B. Problems with the Concept of Race
        1. The number of human races
        2. The nature of continuous variation
        3. Correspondence of different traits
        4. Variation between and within groups
        5. What use is the race concept?
III. The Evolutionary Approach to Variation
    A. The Analysis of Gene Flow and Genetic Drift
        1. Genetic distance analysis
        2. Demographic measures
    B. The Analysis of Natural Selection
        1. Individual genetic associations
        2. Environmental correspondence
        3. Demographic measures
        4. Problems in analysis
IV. Summary
V. Supplemental Readings


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