Genetic influences on personality are something that you can't take credit for. But if those geans shape our biology in such a way that we are more likely to be persistent, or delay gratification, then that ring between agency and credit starts to get muddled. This is an idea resusntin none of the precepts of justice tend towards desert, right? Tend towards rewarding desert, because it's impossible at a certain point. It does suggest that any efforts to arrange a social order, to mete out rewards according to what people deserve, is rapidly run into a point of comere impossibility.
The subject of genetic inheritance provokes passionate debate but behavioural geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden believes both sides are getting it wrong. It’s possible, she argues, to reclaim the science of genetics while avoiding the trap of categorising traits as superior or inferior. Drawing from her new book, The Genetic Lottery, Harden shares her research uncovered as head of the Developmental Behavior Genetics lab at University Texas with Helen Lewis, staff writer at The Atlantic.
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