Everyone has a right to belong
Support diversity, inclusion and harmony. Everyone has the right to be included.
Australia is made stronger by the diversity of its people.
People today look remarkably diverse on the outside. There is variation among individual human beings, from size and shape to skin tone and eye color. But we are much more alike than we are different. We are, in fact, remarkably similar. There is no reason to assume that “races” represent any units of relevance for understanding human genetic diversity.
Early studies on human diversity showed that most genetic diversity was found between individuals rather than between populations or continents.
Gradual variation and isolation by distance on a worldwide scale are better representations of global genetic diversity than are discontinuities among continents or “races.” The pattern seen is one of gradients, that extend over the entire world, rather than discrete clusters. There is no reason to assume that major genetic discontinuities exist between different continents or “races.”
An understanding of how genetic diversity is structured in the human species is not only of anthropological and political importance, but also of medical relevance.
read more: Evidence for Gradients of Human Genetic Diversity Within and Among Continents
