Our essay at Aeon
Aeon is yet another manifestation of the accelerating race to quality online creativity, that challenges, or even threatens, the standard ways of doing business that we owe to Gutenberg and the Middle Ages. We have been posting on this recently as manifestations of the new way the world is going--and that our area, the academic and research world, will need to adjust and welcome the changes.
So we took our invitation quite seriously. And what we're calling today's post is up on their site today. Our essay is on DNA as a metaphor for our time. We write about how the belief in genetic determinism is pervasive and deep, and yet, by and large it's highly overstated. It's a de facto belief in simple inherited destiny. Even when things are expressed in probabilities (like disease risk) and even when they're small, they are widely perceived as major, stable, and essentially deterministic. We try to explain our view on these things.
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