But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.
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Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.
I suppose if there's a set of genes I have, it's detesting authority.
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
For each gene in your genome, you quite often get a different version of that gene from your father and a different version from your mother. We need to study these relationships across a very large number of people.
Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.
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