Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "Kamala Harris Family Tree | Race vs Ethnicity" video.

@o-o2399 no, he is a member of "blood diamonds" royal family 😆😆😆😆
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The problem is that usual classification of "race" in societies has nothing to do with actual genetic or anthropological patterns in human populations. "White" and "black" are not actual genetic or anthropological categories. West Africans are more different in genetics from some East Africans than Europeans are different from Arabs. There are studies with genetic distances between populations calculated, you can check them yourself
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First of all, "white" and "black" are not real genetic or anthropological categories. Some West Africans are more different genetically from East Africans than Europeans are from Arabs. Knowing only skin colour and using such primitive categories doesn't inform you about any important characteristics
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@mynameisjeff869 genes and how they are expressed define who you are. And environment influences gene expression a lot in every stage of life. And yeah, several dozens of genes related to appearance, are basically inconsequential for anything important, except maybe the amount of sunscreen you need to use on the beach
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@Silver_Knee well, yeah, spot on, because haplogroups describe only mtDNA and Y-chromosome, which are only 1% of genome. See my earlier comment
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Haplogroups describe 1% of genetic ancestry at best - the ones from purely female and purely male lines, all the other ancestral lineages are not described by haplogroups. Also, the same individual may have absolutely different results for mtDNA haplogroup and for Y-DNA haplogroup, if their all-male and all-female ancestries come from different populations. One may well be a 100% Western European by Y-DNA and 100% Native American by mtDNA (because those bits of DNA don't mish-mash in crossingover, so they all give you 100% result from one source). I believe there was a video with clearly black girl having a nasty response to a genetic company, which promised to tell her where her African ancestry comes from by studying only mtDNA, but her mtDNA turned out to be from British Isles. Because mtDNA literally contains only a tiny bit of your overall genetic ancestry. Plus, bold for them to assume that all black people have mtDNA lineages only from Africa
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