If you turn on the television, you listen to the radio, all of a sudden we're starting to see

a lot of advertisements where they're saying, send us your DNA and you'll learn so much more about

yourself.

You can learn where you came from.

You can even learn the odds of you getting cancer.

It amazed me to hear that now, with just some saliva, your DNA can be

analyzed and actually tell you whether or not you're smart. And this testing can even happen down

into when the baby is in utero. As you might imagine, there's a lot of ramifications about

DNA intelligence testing. And if you're

just joining us for our Command On Demand podcast, welcome. But you missed episode one, how DNA tests

could predetermine your future. Because right now, we're on episode two, the second part of this

podcast, because there was just so much to cover, we couldn't

just do it in one. As always, in our command-on-demand podcasts, we always have some expert

guests. You'll be hearing from Robert Plumman. He's a behavioral geneticist at King's

College in London. He's the author of the book, Blueprint, How DNA Makes Us Who We Are. Also joining us is Dr.

Catherine Bliss. She's an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, San Francisco.

She wrote the book, Social by Nature. So are you ready? Put on your thinking cap, because we

are going to examine. We're going to go a little

bit deeper and answer the question. Can DNA really predict intelligence?

Ten fingers, ten toes. That's all that used to matter. Not now. Now, only seconds old, the exact time and cause of my death was already known.

Neurological condition 60% probability,

manic depression, 42% probability,

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