existed for centuries, and despite the progressive views that modern society so often prides itself on, racial prejudices persist to this day. The idea that some races are genetically predisposed to be weaker, stronger, or more or less susceptible to disease endures in modern medicine with the introduction of race-specific drugs such as BiDil even after scientific research, cited by Jonathan Marks in “Human Evolutionary Biology,” indicated that such medications are no more effective than their generic…
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