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“There is new, exciting and recent evidence that in fact organismal longevity can be regulated and can be defined by genetic components,” said Brunet. “So the question becomes, which are the genes that affect organismal longevity?”
I hoped your article would deliver the goods and tell me what it is that makes me special, putting to rest a long-standing suspicion that I am not. I am similar, in some ways even identical, to millions of other humans. Do I really, truly matter, or will I...
Having been adopted, I conclude from my experience that we get our behavior and personalities from our genes and our habits from the nurturing of others or our environment. My birth mother and my adoptive mother are as different as night and day, and seeing what each of them has...
Will this new vision of genes enable us to leave the nature-nurture argument behind, or are we doomed to reinvent it in every generation? Unlike what happened in previous eras, science is explaining in great detail precisely how genes and their environment--be it the womb, the classroom or...
It may be in our nature, however, to seek simple, linear, cause-and-effect stories and not think in terms of circular causation, in which effects become their own causes. Perhaps the idea of nature via nurture, like the ideas of quantum mechanics and relativity, is just too counterintuitive for...