How researchers debunked ‘race science’: ‘a triumph of scientific self-correction’ An account of how nineteenth-century studies aiming to find a biological basis for human races were dismantled by good scientific practices — although their effects are still felt today. By David Silverberg

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03507-z The Ends of Race: The Rise and Fall of a Scientific Myth Geoffrey Galt Harpham Princeton University Press (2026) Two stories about the history of science around race emerge from the nineteenth century. Each tugs at our attention in a different way. Humanities scholar Geoffrey Galt Harpham chronicles them in a book with enthralling detail.