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Lewontin's fallacy: a standalone construct

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Population genetics

the argument that low between-group variance at single loci does not mean group membership cannot be inferred, because correlations across many loci carry that information.

In population genetics, Lewontin's fallacy refers to the argument that low between-group variance at single loci does not mean group membership cannot be inferred, because correlations across many loci carry that information. This meaning comes from Edwards (2003) in BioEssays.[1]

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References

Edwards, A. W. F. (2003). Human genetic diversity: Lewontin's fallacy. BioEssays, 25(8), 798-801. https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.10315

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