RACE, cultural construct based on the popular, but mistaken notion

RACE, cultural construct based on the popular, but mistaken notion that humans can be divided into biologically distinct categories by means of particular physical features such as skin color, head shape, and other visible traits that are transmissible by decent. … Genetic studies undertaken in the last decades of the 20th century confirm that “races” do not exist in any biological sense.
~ Encyclopaedia Britannica (2002)