The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future
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The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future
By (Author) Dalton Conley
By (author) Jason Fletcher
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
21st January 2019
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Genetics (non-medical)
Sociology
576.5
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Paperback
294
Width 155mm, Height 235mm
Description
How genomics is revolutionizing the social sciences For a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague. But the nature-nurture wars are over. In the past decade, a small but intrepid group of economists, political scientists, and sociologists have harnessed the genomics revolution to paint a more complete picture of human soc
Reviews
"Co-Winner of the 2018 Best Book Award, Evolution, Biology, and Society Section, American Sociological Association"
"Winner of the 2018 Otis Dudley Duncan Award, Section on Population of the American Sociological Association"
Author Bio
Dalton Conley is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. Jason Fletcher is Professor of Public Affairs, Sociology, Agricultural and Applied Economics, and Population Health Sciences at the University of WisconsinMadison.
