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216. Kathryn Paige Harden — The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

The Michael Shermer Show

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How Similar Identical Twins Are for Some Life Outcomes

Mice are genetically similar animals who are raised in exactly equal rearing conditions. And what they see is how randomness turns into personality, that there'sRandom differences in which mice go which ware, you know, which place and how much the first day. But that influences their social arrangements for the next day, which influences our social arrangements forThe next day,. until you have the emergence of these stable patterns of activity and social dominance between the mice.

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