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Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:11:35 UTC No. 16622407
How many distinct human subspecies are there? For africa, i've been able to pinpoint four. The bantu, bushmen, pygmies and nilotes. In asia, south asians are obviously a distinct subspecies. Australia has aboriginals. But beyond that i am stuck on how to classify other populations as single biological units
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:21:23 UTC No. 16623068
>>16622407
I'm interested in your classification of sub-saharan negroids
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:45:07 UTC No. 16623171
>>16622407
Identifying subspecies that aren’t geographically isolated is a lost cause
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:20:00 UTC No. 16623211
>>16623171
This. If the population hasn't been almost entirely isolated for >20k years you're just randomly assigning labels to mongrels.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:56:01 UTC No. 16623237
If you're interested though, here's a shortlist of the most genetically isolated/distinct populations:
Pygmies (especially Mbuti), Bushmen (especially Juǀʼhoan/!Kung San people, Taa speakers are another subgroup), Hadza people, Andamanese people (esp Jarawa probably), Taiwanese aborigines (Ami and Atayal), some Siberians (Chukchi), some Dene Amerindians (Chipewyan), some Central Americans (Pima, maybe Mixe), some Amazonian (Karitiana, Surui/Paiter), and some endogamous Aboriginal and Papuan tribes
Unsurprisingly they're populations largely untouched by the Neolithic revolution and/or living in very remote areas.