Biologically, there is only one human race. |
Biologically, there is only one human race. Race applied to human beings is a social grouping; it is a system originally devised in the 1700s to support slavery and colonialism that classifies people into a social hierarchy based on invented biological, cultural, and legal demarcations.
Dorothy E. Roberts, “Breaking the Bonds of Race and Genomics,” GeneWatch, Volume 25, Issue 1 (January-February, 2012): http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/GeneWatch/GeneWatchPage.aspx?pageId=405.
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