![]() ![]() ![]() Human Diversity includes three chapters dedicated to laying out his argument for why race is biologically real. ![]() ![]() Murray, unsurprising to many reading this I would presume, argues against the ‘race is a social construct’ position and states that there is sufficient evidence to reject the proposition that race is a social construct. This debate about the ‘realness’ or ‘biologicalness’ of race intersects with various orthogonal questions: Can the term “race” be used interchangeably with “population”? What evolutionary processes are responsible for any observed differences? If natural selection is responsible for these observed differences, what are the selection pressures that prompted the differences? The other side of the debate argues that race is not a social construct, and there are real, partly genetically based differences between races in psychological traits, including IQ. On one side of the debate, the argument is that race is a social construct in which proponents assert that race differences in skin color or other outwardly visible traits do not correspond to meaningful differences in psychological traits, with IQ being the primary trait of focus. The debate can be summarized as two oversimplified positions. I have remained intentionally mute on the ongoing scholarly debate of race differences in psychological traits. ![]()
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