User talk:Evolbiol07

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Genetic studies in caste articles

The consensus has long been that we should avoid genetic studies in caste-related articles, even if peer-reviewed. There are just too many problems with them, eg: a new, fast-changing sciences that makes broad assumptions about small studies, relies on self-identification, usually produces papers that are couched with loads of "possible"/"could be"/"might"/"perhaps" terminology etc. More, geneticists cannot even agree on the composition of much simpler genomes that the human variety, so there really isn't much to see. You could perhaps mention it in Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia but to do so in a specific caste article is just asking for big problems. Kautilya3 and Fowler&fowler can probably explain it better than me. - Sitush (talk) 18:01, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]