{"id":62586,"date":"2021-12-13T02:31:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T02:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62586"},"modified":"2021-12-13T02:41:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T02:41:02","slug":"n-geneticists-curb-use-of-the-term-race-in-their-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62586","title":{"rendered":"Human geneticists curb use of the term \u2018race\u2019 in their papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Human geneticists curb use of the term \u2018race\u2019 in their papers<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Science<\/a>
\n2021-12-02<\/p>\n

Rodrigo P\u00e9rez Ortega<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Geneticists are working to remove harmful racial categories from their descriptions of human populations. DAVIDE BONAZZI\/@SALZMANART<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Field still struggles with how to accurately describe populations, study finds<\/em><\/p>\n

Human geneticists have mostly abandoned the word \u201crace\u201d when describing populations in their papers, according to a new study of research published in a leading genetics journal. That\u2019s in line with the current scientific understanding that race is a social construct, and a welcome departure from research that in the past has often conflated genetic variation and racial categories, says Vence Bonham<\/a>, a social scientist at the National Human Genome Research Institute<\/a> who led the study.<\/p>\n

But alternative terms that have gained popularity, such as \u201cancestry\u201d and \u201cethnicity,\u201d can have ambiguous meanings or aren\u2019t defined by genetics, suggesting researchers are still struggling to find the words to accurately describe groups delineated by their DNA<\/a>, according to the study.<\/p>\n

In the 19th and 20th centuries, many geneticists embraced the idea that there were races, such as \u201cNegroid\u201d or \u201cCaucasian,\u201d that were distinct biological groups; such \u201crace science\u201d helped perpetuate discrimination and inequality. (Scientists have now thoroughly demonstrated<\/a> the lack of a biological basis to racial categories.)…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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