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Something like 30-50% of all human genetic variants are shared across continents. It's hardly asinine to say that a significant proportion of genetic variation is shared with everyone. Depending where you are talking about, ~20% of variation is unique to a given continent.

I don't think PCA plots really tell us much beyond there being distinct genetic clusters? One could do a PCA only on people with european ancestry, or people living in a small town, and there would be plenty of interesting structure to look at.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature15393



If the difference was 70 or 80% would they even be the same species?


  "One could do a PCA only on people with european ancestry, or people living in a small town"
That would be extremely interesting. Maybe a way to do polygenic risk scores for traits like IQ.




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