Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

Race differences show up early in life.

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.