What if We Select Ourselves Out of Existence?

…It's nature and nurture; as Conley writes [in The Social Genome: the new science of nature and nurture]: "the social genome deletes the versus," creating what he calls the Möbius strip of our lives. From genomic studies, scientists have developed the polygenic index, or PGI, a way to score the likelihood of a wide range of genetic outcomes. If you can measure a trait, Conley insists, you can get a PGI for it. Will you be pretty, will you be rich? The PGI can tell you...

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