Is Race Really Real?

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i think geneticists think that every human on the planet is no more than fiftieth cousins with every other human. We haven't got much in the habit of thinking that way, have we? i can kind of understand why it's confusing o people. You you all need to just stop making a fuss about race. If you tinkif you're going to insist that it isn't real,. yet we missed out on that. I'm glad youe talked to hem.

For much of human history, people viewed themselves as members of tribes or nations but had no notion of “race.” Today, science deems race biologically meaningless. Who invented race as we know it, and why? By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.

Photo: The Monument to the Discoveries, Lisbon, Portugal. The highlighted figure in the center is an effigy of Gomes Eanes de Zurara. The figure at the top right is Prince Henry the Navigator. Photo by Harvey Barrison.