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Race isn’t a ‘biological reality,’ contrary to recent political claims − here’s how scientific consensus on race developed in the 20th century

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President Donald Trump recently warned of “a distorted narrative” about race “driven by ideology rather than truth” Julian Zelizer : A recent executive order condemned a Smithsonian exhibit about race as a social construct.

Zelizer says the history of race shows how science landed at the idea that race was invented by people, not nature.

He says science could never establish that reality, but the rise of population genetics led to new scientific ideas.

Theodosius Dobzhansky was a preeminent biologist of the 20th century .

He and other biologists were interested in evolutionary changes.

Jackson: Races, which supposedly didn’t change over time, were useless for understanding how organisms evolved.

A genetic population was not “real”; it was an invention of the scientist using it to understand organic change.

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