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Genes and social forces may conspire to turn people into addicts but do not doom them to remain so. Consider the case of Rafael Rios, who grew up in a housing project in New York City's drug-infested South Bronx. For 18 years, until he turned 31, Rios, whose...
Her students in Anthropology 103: "Genes and Human Diversity," gave her a score of 3.9 out of 5 in the 1994-95 academic year, according to the CUE Guide.
At the time, I was a neurobiologist at the Salk Institute in San Diego. I was deeply immersed in questions of brain organization and development. And I was gay. So it wasn't a big stretch to put these two parts of my life together: to ask whether this particular...
But what really made the prospects of manipulating human sexuality seem more immediate and threatening is recent molecular genetic research by Dean Hamer and his colleagues at the National Cancer Institute. In 1993 Hamer's group reported evidence that genes on the X chromosome predispose boys to become either gay...
The genes haven't actually been identified yet, but if Hamer's findings are right, it won't be more than a few years until they are identified. And then it will be a simple matter to develop a blood test that could be applied to adults, to children and...