Genetic Determinism and the Selection Bias

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There are lots of eerie examples like that which advocates of genetic determinism get very excited about and very seductive because you're eating god that's weird. nancy seagull writes books about these and how the similarities are eerie uh although it's in a strange way. i mentioned Frank Sullaway earlier i wrote that book born to rebel about the non-shared home environment and the competition between siblings to be different from one another for competition parental resources and love and attention before.

Shermer and Cobb discuss: objections to genetic engineering (political, religious, cultural) • selective breeding • recombinant DNA • the ethics of genetics • patenting life • gene therapy • gene editing • CRISPR • literature and films on the dangers of genetic engineering • bioweapons • 3 Laws of Behavior Genetics and what people fear about it.

Matthew Cobb is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester. He is the author of six books: The Idea of the Brain: A History; Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code; Generation; The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis; Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944; and Smell: A Very Short Introduction. He lives in England.