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Science and Race

JONATHAN MARKS

Yale University

The scientific study of human biological variation has consistently produced knowledge that contradicts widespread popular, or folk, wisdom. Although people and the populations they belong to certainly differ from one another, they do not appear to do so in such a manner that permits the identification of a small number of human subspecies or races. Classification of people into races involves cultural, not biological, knowledge; and race is inherited according to cultural rules that stand in opposition to biology. Thus race is not a useful biological concept. To understand whether differences exist between populations in cognitive ability (or any other inherent "gifts") requires confronting the limits of scientific knowledge.

American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 40, No. 2, 123-133 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/0002764296040002003
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