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Genetics and Epigenetics Come Home from the War

September 13, 2017May 26, 2018 ~ Shea Robison ~ Leave a comment

The gene-centric focus of molecular genetics is usually portrayed as the product of the inevitable and impartial progress of science, but the material effects of the Second World War and its aftermath on the particular trajectory of the science of genetics are rarely considered.

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