“Race”: Fact or Artifact?

Racism is real. “Race” is not. The idea that human biological differences show distinct boundaries that define and separate populations is a fallacy. The science of genetics offers no basis for such divisions and, in fact, refutes the idea that they exist. Biological research shows that although genetic differences among humans are real, any two people in the same population are likely to differ from each other genetically more than the collective genetic makeup of their population differs from that of any other population.1