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Genetic Mysteries: How Humanity Benefits from Our Differences in DNA

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Being born with certain genes is a lottery. Pure luck—or, conversely, bad luck. Genes are beyond our control, yet they determine many things: academic success, health and life expectancy, even income. The science of genetics once served to justify social inequality. But what if it isn't the enemy of justice, but a necessary tool for its establishment?
This is precisely what behavioral geneticist Katherine Paige Harden proves in her book: DNA differences really do affect life chances—and ignoring this fact is more dangerous than speaking openly about it. Drawing on modern research, she reveals what the "genetic lottery" really means, why some children learn better while others need support, what polygenic indices are and how they work, why genetics fails to explain "racial differences," and how genetics can help create equitable systems of education, medicine, and social policy. This book is an honest, impeccably scientific, profound, and yet humane conversation about how we differ and why recognizing these differences is the path to equality.
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