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Richard Dawkins on reading history through genes

October 17, 2024 Education, Philosophy, Science and Technology, Think

Richard Dawkins, inaugural Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the bodies of animals resemble their environments from thousands of years ago, and why sequencing these genomes offers a time machine to previous stages of evolution.

You didn’t earn your DNA, but you might be judged by it

December 16, 2021 Race/Identity

University of Texas professor Kathryn Paige joins us to discuss why our genes can foster inequality and suggest interventions we can use to mitigate it.

Why DNA Is Not Destiny

May 4, 2017 Science and Technology

Steven Heine joins us to talk about why some of us put entirely too much stock into what genetic testing reveals.