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RACE classification, it has been asserted by an authority of no little experience, is the most difficult of the tasks of the anthropologist. The difficulties of the man of science in connexion with a technical point are not, as a rule, of immediate concern outside professional circles; but in this instance the inability of the anthropologists to clarify opinion by a generally acceptable definition of ‘race’, and their failure to arrive at an agreement as to its implications have had serious repercussions in the outside world, as is now familiar to everyone. Extreme and biased views have been accepted as endorsed by science because no voice is raised to contradict them with full and unquestioned authority.
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The Delusion of Race. Nature 137, 635–637 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137635a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137635a0