What do most scientists believe about race?

Most scientists view race as a social category shaped largely by society’s beliefs and classifications, rather than as a set of clear-cut biological divisions. Human genetic variation does not divide neatly into the familiar racial categories. This makes “more about society’s views than actual biology” the best answer; race is not the same thing as ethnicity, which often refers to shared culture, ancestry, or identity.

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