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Learn about New Genetics and Society aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

Trust in science should mean neither uncritical deference nor sweeping skepticism, but a calibrated, reflective stance. To illustrate what this stance requires, I examine two contrasting, context-spec...

Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alchemy  “Philip Bal...

Trust in science should mean neither uncritical deference nor sweeping skepticism, but a calibrated, reflective stance. To illustrate what this stance requires, I examine two contrasting, context-spec...

Numerous studies have shown that separating childhood jabs will delay protection and increase costs for families.

This book illustrates that the stereotypical representa…

People explain what they experience, feel, and encounter in order to understand the present and anticipate the future, according...

Nature Human Behaviour - Polygenic risk scores are not genetic predispositions

Science & Education -

Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

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Developmental Biology Advances invites submissions for a Special Collection focused on how to teach evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) across ...

Developmental Biology Advances invites submissions for a Special Collection focused on how to teach evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) across ...

Deep Maniot Greeks preserve Y-DNA and mtDNA from Bronze-to-Roman Age Greece, largely untouched by later migrations. Genetics reveal historical demography, settlement patterns in southern Greece, and t...

About this episode: Francis Crick is best known as one of the figures behind the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA, but the familiar story leaves out as much as it explains. Historian of...

There was always going to be a complex reckoning in the obituaries of James D Watson (1928–2025), the American geneticist who co-discovered the structure of DNA. For many years, Watson was one of the ...

This is what we should be teaching in schools!

This was a terrific discussion with Eric about my new biography of Francis Crick.

This is what we should be teaching in schools!

Absence of evidence vs. evidence of absence

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Absence of evidence vs. evidence of absence

NO!!!! Establishing paternity through DNA does not entail anything about one's ethnicity