There Is No Such Thing as Race at the Genetic Level

The part of the human genome that makes our skin and hair look different is tiny compared to what we share. Race is 100% a social construct, though it is still being used as a biological category.

Kristen Hovet
The Startup
Published in
6 min readMay 1, 2020

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These two individuals share 99.9% of their genomes. There is no such thing as race at the biological level. | Photo by Mosa Moseneke on Unsplash

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