ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that biosocial explanations of racial matters are still employed and expressed in forms old and new in the contemporary social sciences, and that numerous social scientists have developed arguments that support or reject this resurgence of race viewed in biosocial terms. Van den Berghe argues that the social reality of both ethnicity and race are extensions of the human reality of biological descent and kinship groups; 'race sentiments are to be understood as extended and attenuated form of kin selection'. Moreover, he also says that he is opposed to viewing a race as a biological sub-species and instead understands it as a social race involving human categorization based on 'biologically trivial phenotypes'. For instance, Ann Morning counters their assertion that there is a disconnect between social constructionist views of race and human biology, for genetics-based claims about the biological basis of 'race' are themselves social constructions.
