Race isn’t a “biological reality.” For @TheConversationUS, professor John P. Jackson, Jr. looks at the evidence that says race was invented by humans, not nature.
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We knew that in 1990, even before we'd mapped the human genome. I learned it in 9th grade biology.
@Uair Absolutely — though certain people in the U.S. government seem to need a reminder of that! The article references anthropologist Sherwood Washburn, who wrote in 1951: “There is no way to justify the division of a … population into a series of racial types.” @TheConversationUS explains that this is "because doing so would be pointless. Presuming any group to be unchanging stood in the way of understanding evolutionary changes. A genetic population was not 'real'; it was an invention of the scientist using it as a lens to understand organic change."
