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Social stratification affects who people choose to have children with, with people usually preferring and/or being restricted to their own strata. Seems obvious this would leave artifacts in the genome similar to geographic isolation of different groups.

I've also seen papers that talk about the fingerprint of past wars, genocides, and migrations on the genome.



Agreed, but this puts numbers on it.




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