Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements about attempts to assign humans to discrete racial categories, purportedly based on common ancestry, is true?
A) They are based on global racial categories that vary little from one society to another.
B) They are culturally arbitrary, even though most people assume they are based in biology.
C) They are based on genotypic rather than phenotypic characteristics.
D) They are applied to endogamous breeding populations.
E) They are a recent phenomenon brought on by globalization.
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