The genomes of a randomly selected person from Europe and a randomly selected person from Africa would on average have a greater amount of variation between them than the genomes of two randomly selected people of European descent.

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This is because Europeans and Africans are more genetically different from each other compared to Europeans among themselves. Thus, the genomes of two individuals from different continents would have more differences than those of two individuals from within the same continent.

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