"If a Papua New Guinean hooks up with a Swedish person all you get is a human. There's no new thing you're going to get. You just get a human. Japanese woman (and an) .,. African guy, all you get is a human. They're all humans. So this is a lesson to be learned. There really is... no such thing as race. There are different tribes but not different races. We're all one species."
In fact, our differences in skin color are attributable to less than one-tenth of one percent of our genetic makeup. Race and ethnicity are cultural not biological.
The New York Times reported that the mapping of the human genome is "scientific proof that human beings are not divided into separate biological groups." Dr. J. Craig Venter, whose company Celera Genomics was vital in mapping the human genome, said it bluntly: "There is no basis in the genetic code for race." Venter went further to say that he is disturbed to see "reputable scientists and physicians even categorizing things in terms of race."