“Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning. And yet, you might still open a study on genetics in a major scientific journal and find categories like “white” and “black” being used as biological variables.” This article goes on to detail how scientists are pursuing new, more accurate categories based on geography and ancestry.
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