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Ep. 102: Genetic engineering and the biological basis of intelligence. | Steven Hsu

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The Evolution of Communication Genetics

The genetic architecture as far as we can tell of height is very similar in the sense that it's polygenic and pretty much uniformly distributed across all your chromosomes. The locations of little variants that have some small plus or minus effect on your height or your cognitive ability. And by the way, everything I'm telling you was only known in the last five years; 99% of medical doctors don't understand any of this. So if you listen to our podcast you're officially smarter than your doctor that's the takeaway from this episode.

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