Evolutionary speciation, whether it be cladistic or phyletic, has always been associated with
race concepts. Biological races are conceived as definable stages of divergence from a …

There is no visible end to the debate on the concept of 'race'in human evolution. Although
racial terminology and racial classification systems have gradually disappeared from the …

Biological research on race has often been seen as motivated by or lending credence to
underlying racist attitudes; in part for this reason, recently philosophers and biologists have …

Race has been a core concept in anthropology since the inception of the discipline. For the
last century, anthropologists have grappled with the problem of racial analysis with little …

The notion that race has some biological basis has been widely criticized, by both biologists
and philosophers. Indeed, the view that race is no more scientifically real than witchcraft is …

Publisher Summary This chapter examines the conceptions of race within systematic
biology. The typological race concept represents one of the first comprehensive efforts to …

It is a commonplace today that race has no basis in nature. There are no races, only racisms.
This insight is not new: Franz Boas mobilized population biology in the 1930s to question …

Episode one explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of
biological race. Episode two questions the belief that race has always been with us. It traces …

In the ongoing debate concerning the nature of human racial categories, there is a trend to
reject the biological reality of race in favour of the view that races are social constructs. At …

Race was once thought to be a real biological kind. Today the dominant view is that
objective biological races don't exist. I challenge the trend to reject the biological reality of …