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I hope you enjoy the program. Hello in the middle of the last century two men

Greg O Mendel and Austrian monk and Charles Darwin, an English naturalist, established the

central theories of modern biology and changed the way the world thinks. Darwin's

on the origin of species has been described as the book of the millennium,

quote, the only best-seller to change man's conception of himself, unquote.

Through the rediscovery of Mendel's work in the early decades of our century,

evolutionary theory was transformed by the emergence of genetics

as a science.

It seems as if almost every week we read about another gene which claims to determine our

fate, whether it governs our intelligence, personality, or sexual orientation. Some worry about genetic

determinism. Others are eager to blame their antisocial behavior on criminal genes, thus

absorbing themselves of any responsibility.

Genetics may be all about inheritance, but his inheritance all about genes.

Two scientists trying to make sense of this tangled history of Steve Jones,

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