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Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted the scale of the

Dissecting the hype from the frontiers of bioethics, genomics and neuroscience.

Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.

This book argues that neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and behavioral economics often function as a political ideology masquerading as a new science. In l

Misunderstood—or deliberately twisted—biological science leads to overheated rhetoric and bad policy. We like to think that science always illuminates. But