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Race is a Social and Biological Construct

2025-02-21

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The idea that race is a purely social construct appears to have achieved almost universal acceptance within academia. However, this consensus is artificial and maintained by a taboo on the subject of race, particularly in the biological sciences. Here, I argue that the common-sense view that race has a biological basis but is unimportant for traits such as intelligence or character best fits the scientific data. I...

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Literature Corpus work
779d1bf9-9a31-5f7d-9c41-c2941892f747
DOI
10.20944/preprints202502.1765.v1
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