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Nature—meaning DNA—has never been versus nurture (meaning everything that isn’t DNA). Our genomes are the totality of our DNA, and that is where our genes are. Nurture—meaning the nongenetic environment—does not mean whether your parents cuddled you or ignored you as a child; it means every interaction between the universe and your cells, including how you were raised, but also everything from the orientation of you as fetus in utero to the randomness of happenstance, chance, and noise in a very messy system.
How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
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