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Angela Saini is an award-winning British journalist and BBC radio presenter. In 2009 she was named the European Young Science Writer of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers, and in 2015 she won the American Association for the Advancement of Science Gold Award. She has written two other critically acclaimed books – Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World and Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, the latter of which was named the Physics World Book of the Year in 2017.

In 1960, frustrated by the rejection of his work by mainstream journals, race scientist Reginald Ruggles Gates, alongside a former Nazi scientist and a British eugenicist, founded the *Mankind Quarterly*, a publication claiming scientific legitimacy but ultimately serving political agendas. While largely dismissed by reputable academics, contributors to the journal, self-identified as "race realists," sought to validate their views under the guise of science. This ideology persists today, rebranded as "race realism," and remains influential in fringe circles, with figures like Jared Taylor, leader of the American Renaissance Foundation, promoting white nationalist ideologies. Events such as the 2017 Charlottesville rally highlight the visibility of such movements. Anthropologist Jonathan Marks attributes the endurance of race science to funding from politically motivated individuals who frame their arguments as scientific to justify inequality. These proponents often blur distinctions between race and culture, exploiting the acceptance of cultural diversity to mask biological race concepts. Marks himself experienced this evolving rhetoric in 1998 when Steve Sailer, a journalist for the conservative *National Review*, invited him to join a discussion on human variances. Marks, who celebrated biodiversity as a reflection of natural and cultural diversity, encountered a reinterpretation of the term tied to race science, illustrating how its language continually adapts to new contexts.

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