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DNA is not destiny : the remarkable, completely misunderstood relationship between you and your genes / Steven J. Heine.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]Edition: First editionDescription: 344 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393244083 (hardcover)
  • 0393244083 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 572.8/6 23
Contents:
How genes make you who you are -- Your genes, your soul? -- The oracle at 23andme: -- Genetic testing and disease -- Born this way: -- Thinking about gender and sexual orientation -- Race and ancestry: -- How our genes connect and divide us -- Essences and the seductive allure of eugenics -- A brave new world: -- Engineering better essences -- Harnessing our essentialist impulses: -- How should we think about genes?
Summary: "One of the world’s leading cultural psychologists debunks the hype surrounding DNA testing and puts to rest our mistaken anxieties about our genes."--B&T.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

How genes make you who you are -- Your genes, your soul? -- The oracle at 23andme: -- Genetic testing and disease -- Born this way: -- Thinking about gender and sexual orientation -- Race and ancestry: -- How our genes connect and divide us -- Essences and the seductive allure of eugenics -- A brave new world: -- Engineering better essences -- Harnessing our essentialist impulses: -- How should we think about genes?

"One of the world’s leading cultural psychologists debunks the hype surrounding DNA testing and puts to rest our mistaken anxieties about our genes."--B&T.