Scientific racialism

None of these points holds for racial classifications in affirmative action in employment and education, in transracial adoptions, and in electoral redistricting. In each case other individuals or groups are directly impacted or are denied something on the basis of race. In most cases, the preferences are not based on objective, scientific physical differences but on claims about the fairness of selection criteria, about compensation for past wrongs, about diversity for educational purposes, about distributive claims based on the... 

Among the many findings of the HGP is that all humans are 99.9% identical at the level of DNA. Consequently, any two humans on the planet are likely to vary genetically only once in every one thousand base pairs. This finding reconfirms that the species Homo sapiens is relatively young (about 100,000 years old) and that there are no subspecies. Thus there is no scientific basis for racial classifications race is a purely social construct. 

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