Dropping 'Race' In Human Genetics

Race is a social construct, but the field of human genetics struggles how to accurately describe populations

The 19th and 20th centuries saw an insurgence of racial terms like “Negroid” and “Mongoloid” in science to define groups. As a consequence, these terms and the science behind them have perpetuated discrimination against groups of people; i.e. eugenics.

The biological basis of racial categories has since been debunked thoroughly. We now understand more b…