The application of evolutionary principles to the study of human variation Group of answer choices allowed scientists to divide the human species precisely into well-defined races helped replace earlier views based solely on observed phenotypes; brings the focus to geographic ancestry reinforced traditional views of races as fixed biological entities that do not change supports the idea that ethnicity and race are categories that can be used interchangeably (they are the same thing) when describing groups of modern humans.

The study of human variation has shown that individuals from different populations (previously erroneously considered as geographic races) are often genetically more similar than individuals from the same population. In consequence, the evolutionary approach for understanding human variation has enabled us to discard the biological race concept based solely on observed phenotypes in order to provide a more realistic variation concept associated with evolutionary human development. From this perspective, it has been possible to confirm that 1-there are no human subspecies and 2- the concept of human races is not scientifically suitable to describe human variation.