Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning.
今天，科学家们的主流观点是，种族是一种没有生物学意义的社会结构。
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Du Bois was concerned that race was being used as a biological explanation for what he understood to be social and cultural differences between different populations of people.
The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but not biological, variable.