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Is Race a Social Construct? Or Is Race Biological?
So-called "race" is a social construct. It's not a biological fact. Not nearly enough time has elapsed for meaningful adaptations to have occurred that would differentiate one “racial” group from another with respect to mental functioning. Selective pressure that leads to behaviour-modifying adaptations has nothing to do with skin color.
Obviously some adaptations in humans have occurred in the past 100,000 years in response to selective pressure. These adaptations show up in traits such as eye color, skin color, facial features, etc. Superficial features of this nature—variable characteristics of external body parts—reflect selective pressure to adapt to conditions of regional physical environments.
Clearly, the highly visible traits that identify racial differences, which neo-Nazis and other such loonies try to spin into “scientific proof” of their nonsensical doctrines, have nothing to do with “superiority” or “inferiority” of human intelligence or character.
In any case, so much intermarriage takes place across racial boundaries that the concept of “racial purity” has little meaning. For example, research indicates some 30% of African Americans have at least one “white” ancestor.
For that matter, you only need to go back a little more than 30 generations (about 700 years, at 20 years per generation) before you discover that the number of your ancestors exceeds today’s global population. In other words, literally everybody alive today is related to everybody else.