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Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
"Intended for a general audience of professional biologists, an interested public, and university students of both the humanities and the sciences, this book uses simple but evocative language to explain the histories, techniques, goals, successes, and failures of more than fifty of the most compelling stories in genetic engineering.
Having no vested interest in favor of (or against) the field, the author is in an unusual position to offer objective...
3) DNA is not destiny: the remarkable, completely misunderstood relationship between you and your genes
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
One of the world's leading cultural psychologists debunks the hype surrounding DNA testing and puts to rest our mistaken anxieties about our genes.--So why do we continue to buy into the belief that our genes control our destiny? Heine argues that we are psychologically ill equipped to deal with DNA results, repeatedly falling into predictable biases switch-thinking, essentialism, fatalism, negativity dominance, and more that mold our thinking about...
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