I wanted to say there's a whole philosophical literature that considers, what do we do with luck when we win our conversations of equality? And then there's a new emerging genetic science, how the luck of the genetic draw affects our lives. How can we be more deliberate about linking these two areas of scholarship to one another? That's what i'm encouraging many of the readers to think about if we take the science of genetics seriously.
The subject of genetic inheritance provokes passionate debate but behavioural geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden believes both sides are getting it wrong. It’s possible, she argues, to reclaim the science of genetics while avoiding the trap of categorising traits as superior or inferior. Drawing from her new book, The Genetic Lottery, Harden shares her research uncovered as head of the Developmental Behavior Genetics lab at University Texas with Helen Lewis, staff writer at The Atlantic.
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