Biotech may revive the race myth (Image: Andrzeg Krause)
AS THE 20th-century world recoiled from the horrors of Nazi Germany and the eugenics movement, we learned how economic, political and social circumstances produced the racial differences that science had once claimed to be “natural”. Race came to be recognised as a social construct – an aspect of social choices rather than a reflection of biological differences between racial groups.
The constructionist thesis gained popularity after the second world war and encouraged advances in civil and human rights for racial minorities. And with the Human Genome Project finding in 2000 that all…
