Lewontin’s view of race has become near-universal orthodoxy in scientific and social science circles. He wrote, in a famous paper of 1972: It is clear that our perception of relatively large differences between human races and subgroups, as compared to the variation within these groups, is indeed a biased perception and that, based on randomly chosen genetic differences, human races and populations are remarkably similar to each other, with the largest part by far of human variation being accounted for by the differences between individuals.
