To their credit, race was thought of differently before the discovery of the double helix. It was only until the 70s that people commonly believed that Neandert

To their credit, race was thought of differently before the discovery of the double helix. It was only until the 70s that people commonly believed that Neanderthals became white people because their bones were discovered in Europe, and that Homo Erectus created the Asian "race" because their bones were discovered in Asia. Nowadays race more often means skin color and a deterministic culture, with the occasional addition of crude metrics such as IQ to justify preexisting biases.