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M.W. Feldman is a Professor of Biology at Stanford and the Founder and Codirector of Stanford’s Center for Computational Evolutionary and Human Genomics. He was just awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for the Study of Evolution. (April 2022)
Why Biology Is Not Destiny
In The Genetic Lottery, Kathryn Harden disguises her radically subjective view of biological essentialism as an objective fact.
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
by Kathryn Paige Harden
April 21, 2022 issue
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