内容简介
本书是一部与基因科学有关的科普著作。第一部分介绍了基因科学的最新进展，尤其是全基因组关联研究（GWAS）的成果及其广泛应用，包括解释人们在身高和体重方面的差异、预测疾病和学业的成功等。第二部分则致力于为遗传学建立一个新的道德框架。作者结合自己身为人母的经历，论证了为什么我们拒绝承认基因的力量，就会延续精英管理的神话，以及为什么我们要创造一个公平的社会，就必须承认基因运气的作用。
作者简介
作者|凯瑟琳·佩奇·哈登（Kathryn Paige Harden）
行为基因学家，美国得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校临床心理学教授，她领导该校的发育行为遗传学实验室，并参与领导得克萨斯双生子项目。曾发表100多篇关于遗传对复杂人类行为影响的科学论文。2017年，她因对遗传学和人类个体差异研究的杰出科学贡献而荣获美国心理学会颁发的国家级奖项。
译者|陆大鹏
英德译者，南京大学英美文学硕士，译有《1453：君士坦丁堡之战》《海洋帝国》《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》《金雀花王朝》等。曾获《北京青年报》2015年度译者，《经济观察书评》2015年度译者，单向街书店文学奖2016年度文学翻译奖，《新周刊》2018中国年度知道分子。
Content introduction
This book is a popular science work related to genetic science. The first section presents the latest advances in genetic science, particularly the results of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and their broad applications, including explaining differences in height and weight, predicting disease, and academic success. The second part is devoted to building a new ethical framework for genetics. Drawing on her own experience as a mother, the author argues why we perpetuate the myth of meritocracy by refusing to acknowledge the power of genes, and why we must acknowledge the role of genetic luck if we are to create a just society.
About the author
By Kathryn Paige Harden |
A behavioral geneticist and professor of clinical psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, she directs the Developmental Behavioral Genetics Laboratory there and co-directs the Texas Twins Project. He has published more than 100 scientific papers on the influence of genetics on complex human behavior. In 2017, she received a national award from the American Psychological Association for outstanding scientific contributions to the study of genetics and human individual differences.
Translator | Lu Dapeng
English and German translator, Master of English and American Literature, Nanjing University, translated "1453: The Battle of Constantinople", "The Sea Empire", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Plantagenet Dynasty" and so on. He has won the 2015 Translator of Beijing Youth Daily, the 2015 Translator of Economic Observation Book Review, the 2016 Literary Translation Award of One-way Street Bookstore Literature Prize, and the 2018 China Scholar of the Year of New Weekly.
