If it's been a while since you've seen Andrew Niccol's sci-fi film Gattaca and need a refresher about where its title comes ...

It’s evidence for genetic determinism—the idea that our genes dictate our behavior. But it seems wrong, right? I know I tend to go with the behavior that helps me to avoid hunger most effectively.

New genomic research provides strong rationale against genetic determinism for behavior. It has long been known that there is a complex interplay between genetic factors and environmental ...

Paul H. SilvermanCourtesy of Paul H. SilvermanFor more than 50 years scientists have operated under a set of seemingly incontrovertible assumptions about genes, gene expression, and the consequences ...

Our genes, our identities? Geneticist Mary-Claire King started out by strongly arguing against genetic determinism, or the idea that your genes are necessarily your destiny.

We’ve been misled. We’re taught that Gregor Mendel’s pea-crossing experiments provide a timelessly excellent foundation for genetics. Yet in the early twentieth century those experim ...

Rangel and Keller compare a scale for measuring people's beliefs about Genetic Determinism (developed by Keller in 2005) to a scale for measuring people's beliefs about Social Determinism.

The report carefully denounces the concept of genetic determinism, but then goes on to suggest that cloning may threaten an individual's unique identity.

The limits of genetic determinism.Plomin weighs in on a very old debate, one that began at least 2,500 years ago in ancient Greece. This age-old conversation, however, serves to reinforce the ...

In setting out to make genetic research comprehensible to the non-specialist and allay the fears he or she believes it has engendered in the minds of the public—fear of knowing the future, fear ...

It's never a good time for another bout of genetic determinism, but it's hard to imagine a worse one than this. Social inequality gapes, exacerbated by climate change, driving hostility towards ...