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Genetics



Genetics is the study of how our inherited traits are biologically expressed and passed on to our descendants. There is lots of ongoing research in the role genetics play not only in our physical health, but in our emotional, psychological, and relational health as well.

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Intelligence in Nature

Anthropologist Jeremy Narby describes his work decoding Amazonian shamanism and linking their knowledge system to the DNA molecule. He illustrates the concept of intelligence in nature with the story of putting a slime mold inside a maze.

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Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet

What does it mean to carry out “good work”? What strategies allow people to maintain moral and ethical standards at a time when market forces have unprecedented power and work life is being radically altered by technological innovation? These questions lie at the heart of this eagerly awaited...

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Like Mother, Like Daughter—the Science Says So, Too

A new study bolsters evidence that brain structure and mood disorders are genetically passed from mother to daughter

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Jeremy Narby: The Future of Biology

The idea of a kind of intelligence active throughout nature is gaining support within the scientific community, affirming a view long held by indigenous people and shamans.

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Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

While undertaking anthropological fieldwork in the Pichis Valley of the Peruvian Amazon, Narby became intrigued by the local community’s claim that they received their phenomenal biochemical knowledge under the influence of hallucinogens.

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Epigenetics: Conducting the Symphony of Genetics

For all the hype, fear and misinformation that surrounds the application of gene editing, there is an equally powerful technology that offers much the same in potential benefit. This technology, epigenetics, is a natural process that has gone largely unremarked by consumers.

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Living Proof: Mother’s Intuition is Real | Candy Peterson | TEDxSMU

Equal parts witty and emotional, Candy Peterson reveals how a mother’s intuition proved more accurate than doctors’ assessments and ultimately lead to a melanoma diagnosis in her young daughter, Marit.

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How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human

A wide-ranging take on why humans have a troubled relationship with being an animal, and why we need a better one Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive, and baffling animals on the planet. But we are also an animal that does not think it is an animal.

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Genes as Mirrors of Life Experiences

Scientists are turning their focus to an emerging field: epigenetics, the study of how people’s experience and environment affect the function of their genes.

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The Aging Body—A Guide for Athletes (and Everyone Else!)

Specifically designed for people over 40 and senior athletes, musculoskeletal specialist and sports medicine doctor Naomi L. Albertson, M.D.

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