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216. Kathryn Paige Harden — The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

The Michael Shermer Show

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Genetic Programming and the Genewide Association Study

Genetic programming is this idea that all as work the way that may be, like am like a trisme does with down sindrum. If you have three copies of your 20 first chromozom, you're going to develop downs. Like that is as true in fifteenth century france as it is to day. Almost all the things we're talking about are these tiny probablistic effects that are always happening in combination with your environment. And if one part of that changes, the whole system starts moving in a different direction, right?

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