Epigenetics is largely understood as having ethical implications about risk, health, and lifestyle at the individual level. In some cases, it is used to help highlighting societal factors that hamper individual or family choices (such as structural inequalities, socioeconomic status, racism etc). But what about human populations? Recent developments point to an increasing usage of epigenetic findings to highlight possible group-level differences among ethnically or culturally defined human populations. These findings largely blur the distinction between the innate and the acquired in previous debates on genetics and race. They present complex if not controversial implications for ethics, policy, and public health. Building on the results of a recently published study in the American Journal of Human Biology on Race and Epigenetics (Meloni, Moll, Issaka and Kuzawa, 2022), in my presentation I discuss these developments in relation to other parallel postgenomic findings (including microbiomics and DOHaD) that also address alleged biosocial group-level differences among human populations