Race Race Differences in human physical stock regarded as categorizing large numbers of individuals together.
Racial categories are cultural constructs masquerading as biology.
Natural History , December pp. This is nonsense says Jonathan Marks, until you realize that such confusion results from a confusion of biological and cultural heredity. Race, as it is usually used, is inherited, but not in a strictly biological fashion. Marks calls this heredity folk heredity . When you read the article, be sure to understand Marks' distinction between biological and cultural.