"Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly"

This quote by J. Philippe Rushton is describing the argument that race is a social construct and not a biological truth. Rushton is arguing that this argument is ridiculous since the Human Genome Project has actually shown that individuals share approximately 99% of their genes in common. However, Rushton is suggesting that this does not indicate that there are no races. He is indicating that although people share a big percentage of their genes in typical, there are still distinctions in between races that are substantial enough to be considered distinct. He is suggesting that the Human Genome Project does not revoke the idea of race, however rather that it reveals that there are biological differences in between races that should be acknowledged.