Social scientists will soon change the entire conversation of what is now debatable in the social world. Geneticists are making incredible progress in identifying what parts of the DNA code are associated with stable traits, such as intelligence, mental illness, and susceptibility to disease, among many others. Thanks to what is known as
Correct. They won't find a leadership gene. They have already sequenced the human genome, which they thought would unlock all kinds of heritable characteristics. But it didn't. What they found was that we have epigenetics. These are genes that are turned on and off by environmental factors. Thus you COULD have the leadership gene in your DNA, but it could be switched off for any number of reasons. And even if your leadership gene(s) is turned on, there could be other genetic switches that over-ride the leadership gene.
Correct. They won't find a leadership gene. They have already sequenced the human genome, which they thought would unlock all kinds of heritable characteristics. But it didn't. What they found was that we have epigenetics. These are genes that are turned on and off by environmental factors. Thus you COULD have the leadership gene in your DNA, but it could be switched off for any number of reasons. And even if your leadership gene(s) is turned on, there could be other genetic switches that over-ride the leadership gene.