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  • Mar 25, 2015

    Do our genes determine how we behave? Nah.

    by Stone Age Brain

    Today scientists are a lot less confident than they used to be about the effect our genes have on our behavior. No one gene determines if we'll rob a bank, do somersaults, or win the Nobel Prize.