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The F ( ST ) or " genetic variation between versus within groups " for human races is approximately 0. 15.

This is ample to satisfy taxonomic significance.

The F ( ST ) for humans and chimpanzees is 0. 18.

The attempt to claim F ( ST ) invalidates the human race concept is known as " Lewontin's Fallacy ".

However, Witherspoon et al.

2007 concluded that Lewontin's " Fallacy " is only a fallacy if one assumes the populations that individuals can be assigned to are " races ".

They concluded the ability to assign an individual to a specific population cluster with enough markers considered is perfectly compatible with the fact it may still be possible for two randomly chosen individuals from different populations / clusters to be more similar to each other than to a randomly chosen member of their own cluster whilst still being capable of being traced back to specific regions.