Dr. Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT
Genes, Genomics and Human Nature (Trust in the New Sciences, Part 5)
April 1, 2010
University of Alberta

Respondent: Tim Caulfield, University of Alberta
Respondent: Rob Wilson, University of Alberta

This lecture is Part 5 of the Trust in the New Sciences national lecture series 2009-10, co-sponsored by the Canada Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs (CCEPA.CA) and Situating Science. This event was co-sponsored by University of Alberta, and Evolution Studies Group (CIFAR).

Talk about the role of genes in human nature has been plagued by several kinds of linguistic uncertainty ever since the origin of genetics. When the word gene was first introduced in 1909, it served as little more than a place marker, a name for the presumed unit of inheritance. But one source of confusion, conflating genes and mutations, set in at the very start.

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