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  2. Race and genetics - Wikipedia

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    Researchers have investigated the relationship between race and genetics as part of efforts to understand how biology may or may not contribute to human racial categorization. Today, the consensus among scientists is that race is a social construct, and that using it as a proxy for genetic differences among populations is misleading. [1] [2]

  3. Scientific racism - Wikipedia

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    The term scientific racism is generally used pejoratively when applied to more modern theories, such as those in The Bell Curve (1994). Critics argue that such works postulate racist conclusions, such as a genetic connection between race and intelligence, that are unsupported by available evidence. [16]

  4. The Apportionment of Human Diversity - Wikipedia

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    In it, Lewontin presented an analysis of genetic diversity amongst people from different conventionally-defined races. His main finding, that there is more genetic variation within these populations than between them, [2] is considered a landmark in the study of human genetic variation and contributed to the abandonment of race as a scientific ...

  5. Race (human categorization) - Wikipedia

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    Recent interest in race-based medicine, or race-targeted pharmacogenomics, has been fueled by the proliferation of human genetic data which followed the decoding of the human genome in the first decade of the twenty-first century. There is an active debate among biomedical researchers about the meaning and importance of race in their research.

  6. History of the race and intelligence controversy - Wikipedia

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    This was one of the first examples of modern scientific racism, in which a veneer of science was used to bolster belief in the superiority of a particular race. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] Sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois argued that black populations just as much as white ones naturally give rise to what he termed a " talented tenth " of intellectually gifted ...

  7. Racial and ethnic misclassification in the United States

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    Despite genetic and biological research attesting that there is no biological basis for race or genetic profile that is common to people with the same racial category, racial essentialism is a common lay theory that promotes rigid ideas about social hierarchies. [20]

  8. Race and society - Wikipedia

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    Race is often culturally understood to be rigid categories (Black, White, Pasifika, Asian, etc) in which people can be classified based on biological markers or physical traits such as skin colour or facial features. This rigid definition of race is no longer accepted by scientific communities.

  9. Race (biology) - Wikipedia

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    In biological taxonomy, race is an informal rank in the taxonomic hierarchy for which various definitions exist. Sometimes it is used to denote a level below that of subspecies, while at other times it is used as a synonym for subspecies. [1] It has been used as a higher rank than strain, with several strains making up one race.