Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

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.

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

Race differences show up early in life.