Genes

Genes at the Crossroads

Deepak Chopra | Posted 07.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Genetics, Genes, Biological Sciences, Science, Medicine, Human Genome, Genetic Sequencing, Living News
Deepak Chopra

Human behavior isn't complex the way a game of chess is, or the way the wiring is in a computer, for example. Human traits cannot be ascribed to one gene or even a large group.

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The Republican Albatross: Conservatives, Ideology, and the Human Condition As Seen By David Brooks

Dan Agin | Posted 07.18.2008 | Media

Read More: IQ., New York Times, Conservatism, Genes, Republicans, David Brooks, Media News
Dan Agin

The dogma of American conservatism is to look backward, which means you're usually out of date in understanding progress and usually wrong in understanding the human condition.

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Study: Healthy Living Can Change Your Genes

abcnews.com | Will Dunham | Posted 06.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthy Living, Genes, Preventing Cancer, Cancer, Cancer Genes, Living News

Comprehensive lifestyle changes including a better diet and more exercise can lead not only to a better physique, but also to swift and dramatic chang...

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Genetics and the Politics of Discrimination

Beth Kohl | Posted 05.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Genetic Mutations, Politics, Cancer, Genes, Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, Louise Slaughter, Living News
Beth Kohl

Whether the individual wishes to gain that knowledge through genetic tests and whether she feels comfortable knowing potentially scary things about herself should be up to the person to decide.

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Fruit Flies -- Gotta Love 'Em

Jacqueline Leo | Posted 03.31.2008 | Living

Read More: Memory, Genetics, Memory Loss, Genes, Fruit Flies, Living News
Jacqueline Leo

When did scientists discover that fruit flies were absent-minded?

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What Do Selfish Genes, and Memes, Really Mean?

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 11.06.2007 | Living

Read More: Genes, Darwinism, Evolution, Selfish Memes, Social Darwinism, Richard Dawkins, Memes, Adaptation, Selfish Genes, Niceness Gene, Group Selection, Living News
David Sloan Wilson

Richard Dawkins has become such an icon as a spokesperson for science and evolution that it is difficult for many to believe that he could be so wrong about an issue so fundamental as group selection.

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Science vs. Wisdom

Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.26.2007 | Living

Read More: Art, James Watson, Behavior, Genes, Dna, James Watson Prejudice, Nature vs Nurture, Racism, James Watson Racist, Living News
Deepak Chopra

James Watson isn't the first gene devotee who subscribes to the crude notion that biology is destiny. Such a belief runs contrary to even the most basic kind of wisdom.

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How Not to End a Career: The Racism of James D. Watson

Dan Agin | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Genes, Science and Racism, Genes and IQ, Race IQ, Iq, James Watson, William Shockley, Race Intelligence, Politics News
Dan Agin

Like "intelligence", the term "race" is ill-defined in science. The extent to which racial classifications of humans reflect any underlying biological reality is highly controversial.

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Genes and the Black Box (Part 3)

Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.15.2007 | Living

Read More: Genetics, Identical Twins, Genes, Karma, Dna, Living News
Deepak Chopra

To claim that genes are the controllers of everything, which amounts to meta-materialism, is willy-nilly, crude reasoning.

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Genes and the Black Box (Part 2)

Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.08.2007 | Home

Read More: Genes, Genetics, Behaviorism, Home News
Deepak Chopra

The field of genetics is rapidly maturing -- it attracts more attention and excitement than any other field of science today. As part of this matura...

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