Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from

Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Goff and I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about why

biological race isn't real with Princeton University Professor Augustine Fuentes.

Then you'll learn about how plants pass down bad memories to their offspring.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

This is going to surprise you if you've never heard it before.

Race isn't real.

Not biologically anyway.

There's no gene or even set of genes that you can point to

and identify someone's race.

This is a really tough thing to grasp, since race is such a big part of culture and society.

But today's guest is going to make things a whole lot clearer.

Augustine Fuentes is a professor of anthropology at Princeton University

and here's what he told Natalia and me when we asked him.

What's a common misconception people have about humans?

I mean, most people in their daily lives

walk around, they're like, oh, I can tell,

I know what people look like.

They don't.

You'd have to walk on foot from Cape Town South Africa up to Paris, over to Beijing,

and then cruise across the Bering Strait down to Seattle,

and then make all the way down to the southern tip of

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