A01=Dalton Conley
Author_Dalton Conley
biology
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environment
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evolution
genes
genetic engineering
genetic selection
genetics
genome
inheritance
nature vs nurture
sociology
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- ISBN 9781324092636
- Weight: 564g
- Dimensions: 160 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 18 Mar 2025
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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For decades, Dalton Conley tried to answer the big social questions—about why groups hold together, about inequality, and more—through the traditional tools of his first field, sociology. He eventually found that those tools could take him only so far. So he went back to school and got another PhD—in biology. Now, in The Social Genome, Conley explains how the new field he has helped to pioneer, sociogenomics, will upend our world. The key is the polygenic index, which allows us to analyse DNA to broadly predict a child’s future—not just their height or their weight, but how they may be expected to fare in school, and much more. He argues that we should no longer think of nature versus nurture but of how our genes need nurture to work and how, in turn, our environments are made partly from the genes of other people. The implications of this new science—for our sense of self, for our social policies—are vast.
Dalton Conley is a professor at Princeton University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 2005 received the National Science Foundation’s award for best young scientist, mathematician, or engineer.
