Research Portfolio | Science, Technology, and Society 

How "plastic" are we — and how determined by DNA?



Evelyn Fox Keller, professor emerita in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, is a leading historian of biology whose 2010 book, The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture, argues that it is a mistake to think that heredity and the environment (nature and nurture) can be separated when “the entanglement” of these two factors “is not only immensely intricate, but is there from the start.”
 


Interview with Evelyn Fox Keller

 

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DNA model: Photograph by David Marchal