The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

Brenna M. Henn is an associate professor of population genetics in the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Population Biology, and the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis. Her research aims to extend trait mapping and evolutionary genetic techniques to identify loci associated with biomedical traits in diverse populations. She is co-director of the Northern Cape Tuberculosis Project and published extensively on African genomics in&nbsp;Cell,&nbsp;Nature,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,&nbsp;among others.

Brenna M. Henn

Emily Klancher Merchant is an assistant professor of Science and Technology Studies at UC Davis. Her research focuses on the history of the quantitative social sciences in the 20th and 21st centuries. She is author of&nbsp;Building the Population Bomb&nbsp;and co-editor of&nbsp;Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies, and has published in such journals as&nbsp;Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,&nbsp;Population and Development Review,&nbsp;Social&nbsp;Science History, and the&nbsp;Journal of Policy History.

Emily Klancher Merchant

Anne O'Connor is a PhD Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at UC Davis. Her research focuses on gene drives for mosquito control. She is interested in the ways in which concepts of reproduction and change are reformulated with novel scientific techniques.

Anne O’Connor

Tina Rulli is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at UC Davis. She specializes in bioethics and normative ethics, with a focus on genetic and reproductive technologies. She has published in venues including the&nbsp;Journal of the American Medical Association, Bioethics, Hastings Center Report, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal,&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Journal of Medical Ethics.

Tina Rulli

Why DNA Is No Key to Social Equality: On Kathryn Paige Harden’s “The Genetic Lottery”

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

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Tina Rulli is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at UC Davis. She specializes in bioethics and normative ethics, with a focus on genetic and reproductive technologies. She has published in venues including the&nbsp;Journal of the American Medical Association, Bioethics, Hastings Center Report, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal,&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Journal of Medical Ethics.

Tina Rulli

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Why DNA Is No Key to Social Equality: On Kathryn Paige Harden’s “The Genetic Lottery”