Episode 128
Dr. Adam Rutherford is our guest for this second installment of our Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing series. He is a geneticist, author, and broadcaster. Dr. Rutherford has a PhD in Genetics, a degree in evolutionary biology, and is an honorary Research Fellow at UCLA. He was an audio-visual content editor for the journal Nature for a decade, and is a frequent contributor to the newspaper The Guardian. On radio, he is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship science program, Inside Science, as well as many documentaries. On TV, he has presented multiple BBC series including The Beauty of Anatomy, The Gene Code, and award winners Playing God and The Cell. Dr. Rutherford has also been a scientific advisor to films including Biophilia Live, World War Z, The Secret Service and Ex Machina (2015). He has authored multiple books including, “A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived” and the book we will be discussing today, “How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference” which is being released this August!
In this episode, we discuss…
- How genetics is woven into the history of race
- Discrepancy of paper trails and ancestry reports from DTCs between European and non-European descent
- What DTC companies can do to address this racial disparity
- How genetics of ethnicity contradict Dawkins’ “tyranny of the discontinuous mind” concept
- How it is possible to not be genetically related to an ancestor
- What we can learn by comparing the genomes of African and African-American people
- How consumer ancestry genetic testing affects how we think about our genetic differences
- Olympics reveal of the limitation genetic predisposition
- DTCs contribution to racial reification
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Sponsoring this episode is Advanced Tele-Genetic Counseling (AT-GC) which provides virtual appointments to meet with a certified genetic counselor. These one-on-one conversations can help you understand how your own genetics may play a role in your health. Access to healthcare should not be dependent on where you live, which is why ATGC was founded! You can schedule your telehealth appointment directly on their website.
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