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313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age

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Genetic Determinism and the Selection Bias

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.

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