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1. David Dobbs, author of My Mother’s Lover, writes on science, culture, music and sport for publications including The New York Times, National Geographic, WIRED and The Atlantic. His work can be found at neuronculture.com.
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Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity Theodore M. Porter Princeton University Press (2018)

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Nature 558, 28-29 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05313-8

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