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One of the many thousands of happy mixed race families in the United Kingdom.

believing that the groups of mankind differ in their innate capacity for intellectual and emotional development.” Modern research into genetics has revealed how people dif- fer from one another. Around 30,000 genes control a person’s physical characteristics. These create the great variety of shapes, sizes, and looks that make the world’s seven billion people different from one another. Yet only around six genes control all the differences in skin color. This means that people of different skin colors might have far more genes in common

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What Is Racism?