The great difficulty so far in linking up genetics with psychology is going to last *forever* because there aren't enough genes. Really. This is settled science now; there are only about 30,000 genes in the human sequence. That means it is, always and forever, going to be impossible to find one-for-one links between psychological traits and DNA-RNA sequences. One might argue that psychological traits are coded in "gene complexes", but the simple combinatorics of the matter suggest that claim is always going to be a matter of faith rather than anything which could realistically be proven.
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:55:10 -0500
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Whither AEA?
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
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> Is academic economics, at least as practiced in the U.S., of much
> relevance or interest to anyone outside the profession?
>
> Doug
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For small values of "interest", yeh. There is the odd interesting thing that gets done. I remember one once.
dd
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