Race does not belong in the study of human genetics, says a prominent group of scientists in anew paper, published by Science.
The paper is a collaborative effort between Michael Yudell of Drexel School of Public Health, the University of Pennsylvania’s Dorothy Roberts and Sarah Tishkoff, and Robert DeSalle from the American Museum of Natural History. Together they are encouraging the scientific community to remove the use of racial categories from genetic research.
“Racial classifications do not make sense in terms of genetics,” they wrote. “It is time for biologists to find a better way.”
By citing evidence from phylogenetics (evolutionary history) and population genetics, the scientists showed that commonly defined racial groups lack genetic boundaries that distinguish race as a reliable factor in modern biology and medicine.
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