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The Genome Factor

What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future

Dalton Conley Jason Fletcher

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English
Princeton University Press
21 January 2019
How genomics is revolutionizing the social sciences

For a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague. But the nature-nurture wars are over. In the past decade, a small but intrepid group of economists, political scientists, and sociologists have harnessed the genomics revolution to paint a more complete picture of human soc

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Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 155mm, 
ISBN:   9780691183169
ISBN 10:   0691183163
Pages:   296
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dalton Conley is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. Jason Fletcher is Professor of Public Affairs, Sociology, Agricultural and Applied Economics, and Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Reviews for The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future

An indispensable introduction to one of the most exciting frontiers in the social sciences, by two of its pioneers. The Genome Factor is filled with surprises, insights, and strokes of ingenuity. --Steven Pinker, Harvard University, author of How the Mind Works Too often, the debate over the ethics of genomics takes place behind closed doors--among scientists, doctors, and government officials. Members of the general public are left out or treated as an afterthought rather than placed at the center of the conversation. Scientific research is crucial, but the moral dilemmas raised by The Genome Factor belong to us all. --Amy Dockser Marcus, Wall Street Journal


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