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ERIC Number: EJ565098
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
The Sociology of the Gene: Genetics and Education on the Eve of the Biotech Century.
Rifkin, Jeremy
Phi Delta Kappan, v79 n9 p648-54 May 1998
Researchers in molecular biology are discovering an increasing genetic basis for a wide range of mental diseases, moods, behaviors, and personality traits. Findings are creating the context for a new sociobiology favoring a genetic interpretation of human motivations and drives. Genetic engineering will give some people unprecedented power over human life and presages a new, pernicious form of segregation. (20 references) (MLH)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Genetic Engineering, Personality Traits, Sociobiology
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Human Genome Project