“…At the same time, that research itself tended to naturalize and reify those assumptions by showing that, in many cases, genetic differences could indeed be found between the populations so defined. While the precise relationship of these genetic differences to other forms of racial, ethnic or geographical difference continued to be debated, the circular reasoning underlying much of that research went largely unremarked, thereby helping to sediment assumptions that racial and ethnic differences are at least partly rooted in biology (see, inter alia, Bangham, 2015;Gannet, 2001Gannet, , 2003Gannet and Griesemer 2004;Gormley, 2009;Lipphardt, 2014;Marks, 2012;Reardon, 2004Reardon, , 2005Smocovitis, 2012).…”