How genes impact your life

Explain It to Me

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Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 7.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Dylan and Jerusalem are joined by Kathryn Paige Harden, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, to discuss her new book The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality. They talk about what geneticists have learned about the impact of genes on income and education inequality, the social implications of this research and its potential misuse, and why genetics should leave us humbled by the huge effect of luck in our lives. Hosts: Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox Jerusalem Demsas (@JerusalemDemsas), policy reporter, Vox Credits: Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer Libby Nelson, editorial adviser Amber Hall, deputy editorial director, talk podcasts Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weeds-newsletter Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.5	Hello and welcome to another episode of the weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:48.0	I'm Dylan Matthews and today I'm joined by Vox's Jerusalem Densis
0:51.9	for a really interesting episode on genetics,
0:54.8	meritocracy and how to use our knowledge of the human genome to make a more equal world.
1:00.8	Our guest today is Catherine Page-Harden, who's a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.
1:06.8	Page has recently released a book called The Genetic Lottery, Why DNA Matters for Social Equality.
1:12.4	The book discusses what researchers like her have learned in recent decades about how
1:16.8	genes can influence human life and behavior from performance in school to crime to wealth to income.
1:23.0	And the book makes a strong case that emphasizing genetics needn't make us resigned and accepting of social inequality.
1:29.9	The argument is actually that genetics can be a powerful tool to fight those inequalities.
1:34.7	So Page, welcome to the show.
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