| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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.--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 the information we receive. Heine shares his research and his own genome-sequencing results to not only to set the record straight regarding what your genes actually reveal about your health, intelligence, ethnic identity, and family, but to also help you counteract these insidious cognitive traps. His fresh, surprising conclusions about the promise, and limits, of genetic engineering and DNA testing upend conventional thinking and reveal a simple, profound truth: your genes create life but they do not control it. |
| Subject(S) |
Genes -- Popular works.
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Human genetics -- Popular works.
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Molecular genetics -- Popular works.
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Genetic engineering -- Popular works.
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| Added Title |
Remarkable, completely misunderstood relationship between you and your genes |
| ISBN |
9780393244083 (hardcover) |
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0393244083 (hardcover) |
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