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Philosopher, Kwame Anthony Appiah examines how the modern research of genetics has cast doubt on the 19th century theory of a racial essence. He argues that genetics and environment impact on an individual鈥檚 identity, but highlights research that has proved that genes are not inherited in "racial packages", in the third of his 2016 麻豆社 Reith Lectures, Colour.

First broadcast 1 November 2016.