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 | | Given the way that different human "races" fade gradually from one to another in many parts of the world, the overwhelming majority of the current generation of cultural anthropologists draw the conclusion that human "racial" variation is in fact clinal, and that the human species is monotypic. |
 | | The historical definition of race, before the development of evolutionary biology, was that of common lineage, a vague concept interchangeable with species, breed, cultural origin, or national character ("The whole race of mankind." – Shakespeare; "From whence the race of Alban fathers come" – Dryden). |
 | | Some people define their ideas of race in terms of the genetic similarities of groups of individuals that have formed when the human race migrated across the globe and subsequently adapted to new environments or was otherwise changed genetically. |
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