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burtness··on DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for first time
> sub-Saharan Africans, Euro/Asians, Melanesian/Australian Aborigines, and African pygmies

These groups are not considered different species or subspecies of human (homo sapiens sapiens). There are homo sapiens subspecies, but all except sapiens are extinct.

burtness··on DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for first time
Well its at very least contested whether its a biological phenomenon. Its certainly not a genetic phenomenon and hasn't been treated as such since the mid-twentieth century
burtness··on DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for first time
As another comment points out, a popular science article about a person's a product to law enforcement is not science.

However, "race" is absolutely not biological because so little of race is physical. Nobody has ever denied that skin colour and facial features are biological, its the accompanying traits that round out what makes a "race" that have no significant biological basis

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