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The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality is a book by psychologist and behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Published on September 21, 2021, by Princeton University Press , the book argues that human genetic variation needs to be acknowledged in order to create ...
An improvement in the survival lottery for the group must improve that for the gene for sufficient replication to occur. Dawkins argues qualitatively that the lottery for the gene is based upon a very long and broad record of events, and group advantages are usually too specific, too brief, and too fortuitous to change the gene lottery:
John R. Koza is a computer scientist and a former adjunct professor at Stanford University, most notable for his work in pioneering the use of genetic programming for the optimization of complex problems.
After unlocking the secrets of DNA, the Nobel prize-winning biochemist traded in his centrifuge for a life of wine, women, and surf. [From Esquire, 1994.]
Story at a glance Winning the lottery may increase a person’s life satisfaction and remain that way for decades to come. An increase in happiness isn’t as certain, with research showing ...
The Consumerist recently had an interesting post about a study that shows that poor households, with annual take-home incomes under $13,000, on average, spend $645 a year on lottery tickets, which ...
George C. Williams used lottery tickets as an analogy in one explanation for the widespread use of sexual reproduction. [36] He argued that asexual reproduction, which produces little or no genetic variety in offspring, was like buying many tickets that all have the same number, limiting the chance of "winning" – that is, producing surviving ...
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