Race
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Race is a concept which classifies human beings according to broad physical characteristics such as skin color.
Various different classifications have been proposed for human races in the past.
The concept of race is no longer considered scientifically valid, as there is very little genetic differences between the so-called races, and those differences are mostly superficial.
For example, all people have the same skin-coloring pigment (melanin), and what "color" one is depends mainly on how much melanin one has.