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Celebrating 50 years since Lewontin’s apportionment of human …

1. Introduction ā€˜85% of human genetic variation resides within populations’—Richard Lewontin’s result and sound bite, tracing to his 1972 article ā€˜The apportionment of human diversity’ [1], have become indispensable to descriptions of worldwide human genetic variation. In addition to providing a technical advance for the field of human population genetics, the article provides a …