How genes impact your life
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Genetic Causation
When we first learn about jeans an like high school biology, there are these examples of tasak, of huntington's or oft mes. And they're explanatory, right? So if we know what the huntington disease gen is doing, it's this mutation that's causing and differences in the degradation of this huntington protein. People have a very strong prior that genetic causes are all like that,. wright these specific, uniform, explanatory causes. But most everything we talk about social science land is none of the above. We can still think of chancy causes as causes, right? Like they're difference makers, even if they're not true as like a law of nature.
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