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You're listening to intelligence squared today. We're debunking myths about DNA with the behavioral geneticist Catherine Page Harden

Here's the host Helen Lewis with more

I am Helen Lewis and tonight I will be in conversation with our guest Catherine Page Harden a

Psychologist and behavioral geneticist. She's professor of psychology at the University of Texas in Austin

Where she's also lead of the developmental by behavior genetics lab and the co-director of the very cool-sounding Texas twin project

Her new book here we go is the genetic lottery why DNA matters for social equality page

I want to start with a book starts which is with children

And maybe with your children what did having kids teach you that working as a genetics research didn't I think in many ways

It wasn't about teaching me something different, but just really driving home the forces of

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