Which of the following statements about purported attempts to assign humans to discrete racial categories based on common ancestry is true?
A. They are culturally arbitrary, even though most people assume them to be based in biology.
B. They are applied to endogamous breeding populations.
C. They are based on genotypic rather than phenotypic characteristics.
D. They are a recent phenomenon brought on by globalization.
E. They are based on global racial categories that vary little among societies.
Answer: A
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