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A New Scientific Field Is Recasting Who We Are and How We Got That Way (nytimes.com)
5 points by bookofjoe 13 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments







The new field is called sociogenomics, a fusion of behavioral science and genetics that I have been closely involved with for over a decade. Though the field is still in its infancy, its philosophical implications are staggering...

...That’s the central insight of sociogenomics: Genes alone aren’t enough to determine these outcomes and neither is environment, but it’s not just because nature and nurture both shape the individual. It’s because they both shape each other, with nature influencing the way we experience nurture and nurture influencing the way our nature expresses itself.




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