In an amusing twist, Richard Lewontin's landmark 1972 paper—which showed that the concept of race has no biological basis—uses Shannon entropy in its arguments rather than conventional biological statistics. Though this is not a knock on statistics, one can obtain the same result using conventional statistics.

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