Genes and the Environment — Steve Jones / Serious Science

Geneticist Steve Jones on the nature-nurture controversy, genetics of obesity and how can you solve genetic promlems by changing the environment.

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'One of the things which is absolutely passed down from one generation to the next, often for many generations, is money. Most people who are millionaires in the modern world are millionaires because their parents were millionaires, but there are no genes for money. So the mere existence of the hereditary pattern is a very weak inside to whether something is genetic or not.'
Steve Jones, Emeritus Professor of Human Genetics, Principal Research Associate, University College London, Fellow of the Royal Society

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