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“Race” is not an arbitrary social construction and the fuzziness of racial definitions does not negate their reality in several contexts. The most concrete of these differences, based on genetics, is where most of a persons ancestors originate. Blacks (African Negroids) are those who have most of their ancestors from sub-Saharan Africa; Whites (European Caucasoids) have most of their ancestors from Europe; and East Asians (Orientals, Mongoloids) have most of their ancestors from Pacific Rim countries. Although he dodged the term race, Cavalli-Sforza’s (2000, p. 70) showed a maximum likelihood tree made on the basis of molecular genetic markers substantially supports the traditional racial groups classification (Indeed, in 2018 all the gene testing services can provide an approximate breakdown of the regional-racial ancestry of person). Of course, in referring to population or racial group differences we are discussing averages.
Research can fine tune people's ancestries even further than just a general region. Like I said before, in some instances they can even trace which particular neighborhood of London your ancestors may may have been from. The science is that good. But that doesn't make people from that neighborhood a different race or subspecies.
Based on research models used in behavioral genetics and cognitive abilities a substantial part (say 50%) of both individual and group differences is genetic. It therefore it follows that even if all individuals in both groups were treated identically, average group differences would not disappear - those group differences closely aligned to racial group classification (ancestry origin and physical traits).
LOL. It's funny to read how confident you sound on this. The research is not at all clear on this. The fact that you are so eager to believe this just betrays your will to believe.
So yes race exists "scientifically" based on facts, in spite of the post-modernist delusions to the contrary.
So yes, there is no question "race" exists. But only because we create it.