In the interview: A lot of the difficulty in talking about race
has been a lack of agreement on what “race” means. In the past,
the idea of pure races also included an ordering of certain
races as inherently superior to others. We reject this idea
absolutely. However, that doesn’t mean that there are no genetic
differences between populations of different ancestral origin. A
few of our features use the genome-wide data of reference
populations from around the world to trace the origin of pieces
of an individual’s genome. Some customers have complex patterns
depending on where their ancestors originated. These reference
populations aren’t “races”; they’re representative samples of
peoples who have lived in a single place for a very long time
and have thus accumulated different sets of genetic variants
over time. That's a tricky piece of wordcraft -- they're not
'races'; "they're representative samples of peoples who have
lived in a single place for a very long time and have thus
accumulated different sets of g