Thinking about race and genetics is a very complicated undertaking.  I am not sure I have been able to completely work through these issues and I know that I have not been able to teach my students how to think about this issue.

A recent letter on this issue has been written by some scientists who have thought more carefully about this issue.  See there thinking here…and this quote let’s you see how the beginning of their thesis.

“As a group of 67 scholars from disciplines ranging across the natural sciences, medical and population health sciences, social sciences, law, and humanities, we would like to make it clear that Reich’s understanding of “race” — most recently in a Times column warning that “it is simply no longer possible to ignore average genetic differences among ‘races’” — is seriously flawed.”   more here