The genome factor: what the social genomics revolution reveals about ourselves, our history and the future

In The genome factor, Dalton Conley and Jason Fletcher, social scientists from Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, describe the use of genetics in social policy and its current and future implications. They outline the unfortunate consequences of ‘sexy headlines’, small data sets and irreproducible results. They discuss the genetics of racism and inequality and attempt to show ‘how genotype acts as a prism refracting the white light of average effects into a rainbow of clearly observable differential effects and outcomes’.