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#14 Are You Your Genes Or Your Choices? - Dr. Kári Stefánsson
Dr. Kári Stefánsson is an Icelandic neurologist and the founder of deCODE Genetics - the company that cracked the human genome using an entire nation as its laboratory.
Who are we, most fundamentally? Some would say our choices define us. Kári would say it's the interaction between your genes and the environment and he has more data on that question than perhaps anyone alive.
Expect to learn why your genes don't determine your destiny but powerfully shape the terrain you navigate, how Icelandic people became genetically distinct over a thousand years of isolation, why genes linked to obesity…
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