The Elegy of Serological Racialism: The Search for 'Biochemical Races'

Just as scientific racialism was coming of age at the turn of the century, more profound developments were underfoot. The year after the appearance of Ripey's The Races of Europe (1899), Mendel's work was independently rediscovered at the same time by three different workers — after being ignored by them and everyone else for a whole generation. The bir…