Change We Can Believe in: "Race" and Continuing Selection in the Human Genome‪.‬

"People, including me, would rather believe that significant human biological evolution stopped between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, before the races diverged, which would ensure that racial and ethnic groups are biologically equivalent."--Steven Pinker STEVEN PINKER might be right about what most people would prefer to believe. But equivalency, I would argue, is a concept better left to mathematicians-should they choose to keep using it. In any other, less antiseptic context, however, the notion is utterly bankrupt. That we have had to work so hard in recent centuries to construct and maintain political equality among individuals and classifications of individuals should tell us how persistent and pervasive inequality really is. We should never confuse the social construct with the scientific reality. Denial is the least mature and, certainly, the least progressive response to fear.