Which of the Following Statements About Purported Attempts to Assign

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about purported attempts to assign humans to discrete racial categories based on common ancestry is true?

• A)They are applied to endogamous breeding populations.
• B)They are based on genotypic rather than phenotypic characteristics.
• C)They are based on global racial categories that vary little among societies.
• D)They are a recent phenomenon brought on by globalization.
• E)They are culturally arbitrary, even though most people assume them to be based in biology.

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