The apportionment of human diversity

Lewontin, R. C. (1972). The apportionment of human diversity. Evolutionary Biology.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1972

Pages cited

381-398

DOI

10.1007/978-1-4684-9063-3_14

ISBN

9781468490657

DOI registrant

Springer Nature

Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9063-3_14

Cited from

biology_ecology

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

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• Diversity
  • These are independent dimensions, as Lewontin (1972) demonstrated in his classic apportionment of human genetic diversity, finding most variation lies within populations rather than between them.

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    Lewontin's abstract frames the question as the relative importance of intragroup versus intergroup variation but does not state the finding that most variation lies within populations.

    “What has changed during the evolution of scientific thought, and is still changing, is our perception of the relative importance and extent of intragroup as opposed to intergroup variation.”

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