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In his book, “The Myth of Race; The Troubling

Persistence of an Unscientific Idea,” Robert Wald
Sussman quotes a 1950 statement by the United Nations
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

(UNESCO), which asserts that “all humans belong to the
same species and that the concept of race is not a

biological reality, but a myth.” The vast majority of
today’s researchers in human variation contend that

biological races do not exist among the human species.
Sussman further states that, among those who study the

subject of human variation, who use and accept modern
scientific techniques and logic, hold that this scientific

fact is indisputable. It is as valid, true, and as immutable
as the fact that the earth is round and revolves around
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the sun.

It is clear from the above discussions that race is not

biologically identifiable. Nonetheless, select groups have
become racialized through a deliberate social process

that marks them for unequal treatment based on
perceived physiological variances. This illustrates the

extent to which the present-day socioeconomic
hypotheses of race have drifted from biological
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