Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans.J. Philippe Rushton
But differentiation also occurs under less extreme circumstances. Zoologists and evolutionists refer to such differentiated populations as races.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.
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