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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.

You can't have life without the genetic code.

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.

Race has no genetic or scientific basis.

It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.