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Jun 4, 2019 43 min

Kevin Mitchell

from The Beagle Has Landed Podcast Hosted by Theral Timpson

Kevin Mitchell (AKA “Wiring the Brain”) joins us on The Beagle to discuss the use of so-called polygenic risk scores to select for “the smartest embryos,” as a recent Guardian article put it. Can we, and should we, do any such thing? Kevin Mitchell is Associate Professor in the Smurfit Institute of Genetics in Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, and a philosopher-scientist who writes frequently on the mechanisms and deeper meaning of brain science. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beaglelanded.substack.com

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