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A new field of study that attempts to answer the age old question: "Nature or nurture, does breeding lead to economic success, or are you at the mercy of the environment you’re exposed to?

{{ The new field is called sociogenomics, a fusion of behavioral science and genetics that I have been closely involved with for over a decade. Though the field is still in its infancy, its philosophical implications are staggering. It has the potential to rewrite a great deal of what we think we know about who we are and how we got that way. For all the talk of someday engineering our chromosomes and the science-fiction fantasy of designer babies flooding our preschools, this is the real paradigm shift, and it’s already underway.

The part of this research that really blows me away is the realization that our environment is, in part, made up of the genes of the people around us. Our friends’, our partners’, even our peers’ genes all influence us. Preliminary research that I was involved in suggests that your spouse’s genes influence your likelihood of depression almost a third as much as your own genes do. }}

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Need to teach more readin’ writin’ and 'rithmetic. This looks like a new thing for featherbedding academics and masking politics as “Smart guy stuff.” (And one of my degrees is in Sociology.) No matter what interesting data or stuff they will palm off as data they come up with, everybody already knows this. They just didn’t have a pointy-headed name for it all these years and hadn’t found a way to make money off of it. I first heard of it circa 2005 or so. I’m surprised it took so long.

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Sounds like the making of a country song.

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On a similar note.

We were all in the GM’s office getting ready for a meeting. The GM was talking about how much trouble his teenage children were causing him at the time. I wised off and said, “You reap what you sow”. He glared at me. I quickly added, “Their mother must have been a hellion”. The others in the room congratulated me on the quick recovery.