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#534 - Dr Stuart Ritchie - Why Is Behavioural Genetics Such A Hated Science?

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Is the Environment Immutable in Genetics?

In people who were born after communism was gone, genetics explains more of the variation in people's educational attainment. But you need more communist regimes to come in order for that to happen. Luke: It's a real misconception to say that genetics means that we're immutable in some way.

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