216. Kathryn Paige Harden — The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is There a Genetic Variant That Shapes Who We Are?
Humans are so variable that we shouldn't expect any one factor, including their genetics. Even if you could somehow capture old 13 hundred jeins for height and manipulate im the way you want, they're not independent. The jeans are located next to other jeans, on the crombosone. So you select for one, you get something else. Like the famous silver fox, a genetic research in russia, where they selected for docility, and they ended up with floppy ears and and little patches on their foreheads. It's like that emember, that movie, boys from brazil a, where they, this is the idea of creating another hitleri south america
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