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According to Baywatch standards, you’ve lucked out in the gene pool—you’re an athletic, thin, tall blonde with high cheekbones. Add that Harvard education and a higher SAT score—and now you’ve hit the jackpot, but not...
The commission found that the CIA shares some of the FBI's recessive genes: 18 months passed between the time the agency was told that hijacker Khalid al-Midhar had obtained a U.S. visa and the time the CIA put his name and that of his traveling companion, also a...
Decades of social-science dogma depicted the human mind as having few built-in features--kind of like a computer with no programs, a blank slate. Pinker, along with others in the young field of evolutionary psychology, disagrees. For starters, he argued in The Language Instinct, we have a genetically...
That frustrates doctors no end, because while COPD isn't curable, it's largely preventable. Although genes play a role in the disease, about 85% of all cases in the U.S. are triggered by smoking. When cells are exposed to toxic substances for prolonged periods, they tend to become inflamed...
Wealth will not pass beyond three generations," warns a Chinese proverb. Genes, the thinking goes, don't always carry the entrepreneurial DNA of an empire's founder to his descendants, who consistently dissipate the ancestral fortune. That quaint admonition must be weighing on the mind of Hong Kong--based alpha...