ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the emergence of new scientific positions on race that conflicted with older views, and the influences of a new liberal perspective in the educational establishment. It explores further sources of dissatisfaction with the use of the term race, delineate some of the controversy over its use. The chapter briefly outlines new scientific understandings and perspectives on human variation that contradict the components of folk ideology. It then speculates on some of the implications of the trend away from the term race in science. The chapter discusses the chief developments associated with population genetics that has the recognition of the importance of natural selection in the production of physical variation. It also discusses the genetic conception of human variation and the ecological perspective of human variations as products of adaptation. The chapter describes the physical anthropology and attempts to transform the meaning of race.
