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DNA Is Not Destiny: The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship between You and Your Genes
Written by Steven J. Heine
Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne
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Around 250,000 people have had their genomes sequenced, and scientists expect that number to rise to one billion by 2025. Professor Steven J. Heine argues that the first thing we will do on receiving our DNA test results is to misinterpret them completely. Despite breathless (often lightly researched) media coverage about newly discovered "cancer" or "divorce" or "IQ" genes, the prospect of a DNA test forecasting how your life is going to turn out is vanishingly small.
In DNA Is Not Destiny, Heine shares his research?and his own genome sequencing results?to not only show what your genes can actually tell you about your health, intelligence, ethnic identity, and family but also highlight the psychological biases that make us so vulnerable to the media hype. Heine's fresh, surprising conclusions about the promise, and limits, of genetic engineering and DNA testing upend conventional thinking and reveal a simple, profound truth: your genes create life?but they do not control it.
In DNA Is Not Destiny, Heine shares his research?and his own genome sequencing results?to not only show what your genes can actually tell you about your health, intelligence, ethnic identity, and family but also highlight the psychological biases that make us so vulnerable to the media hype. Heine's fresh, surprising conclusions about the promise, and limits, of genetic engineering and DNA testing upend conventional thinking and reveal a simple, profound truth: your genes create life?but they do not control it.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I wrote a longer review on goodreads but here's an abridged version of that.
This is what happens when a non-geneticist decides to write a book about genetics. I can see why this may be an eye-opening book for a person who is not well versed in genetics but I happen to have a degree in genetics and I wasn't impressed.
The book contains text book examples of genetics mashed up with psychology of essentialist bias. Genes blah blah blah essentialist bias blah blah. The essentialist bias is actually pretty interesting phenomenon and I was into the psychology part of this book, but even that got bit boring because everything was explained with essentialist bias. Essentialist bias this and essentialist bias that. Very repetitive.
All in all, this book has an important message on why we shouldn't be completely enticed by the genomics era and I appreciated some parts of the book, but I don't think I was its target audience. My rating is somewhere between it was okay and I liked it.
The narrator of the audiobook did a decent job but I wish someone had told him that SNPs are pronounced "snips". - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5got so much knowledge!...about misconceptions,heridetry,and case studies!..If you have genetics/biology background u must read it!