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Should fitness share the stage with beauty? My review of Prum’s “Evolution of Beauty”

Posted on September 18, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The Times Sunday Book Review, six days ahead of the Sunday paper, published today my review of Richard Prum’s “The Evolution of Beauty” (and a...

Biology/Biotech/Genetics/Medicine

Did the gene-drug revolution just arrive?

Posted on March 28, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Did the genomic revolution arrive last week, or was that just the snowstorm? The answer depends on whom you listened to and what they thought of a study publish...

Biotech/Culture of Science/Genetics/Medicine/Writing

On Ending Blindness

Posted on August 17, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I spent much of last winter working on a story about what it might take to end global blindness. I’m tickled to see the result now on and inside the cover...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science/Published elsewhere

The most terrifying childhood condition you’ve never heard of | Spectrum

Posted on July 6, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I’m honored to have written this story of a rare, severely debilitating disorder; the researchers trying to crack it; and the uncommon love between a fath...

Anthropology/Biology/Brains and Behavior/Culture/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science/Published elsewhere

The Selfish Gene is a static meme, and that ain’t science

Posted on May 25, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Richard Dawkins’s “The Selfish Gene,” book and meme, is now 40 years old. Has it served its purpose? And how do we talk about whether it has? ...

Culture/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science

Is the gene still selfish after all these years?

Posted on May 25, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

  Philip Ball on the strange, often savage defense of a 40-year-old meme past its prime: The fact is that genes can only propagate with the help of other g...

Biology/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science/Readings

Two Sharp Takes on Mukherjee’s The Gene

Posted on May 19, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Nathaniel Comfort, “Genes Are Overrated”: Mukherjee gives us a Whig history of the gene, told with verve and color, if not scrupulous accuracy. The ...

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Brooke Borel’s strange story about Kevin Folta interviewing himself, among other (mis)adventures

Posted on October 20, 2015 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

  The Kevin Folta/GMO/Monsanto/Right-to-Know/conflict-of-interest variety show and bazaar — a saga about a food scientist who took $25,000 from Monsanto wi...

Biology/Biotech/Culture/Culture of Science/Genetics/Healthcare policy/History of science/Medicine/Politics/Psychiatry/Published elsewhere

The limits of genetics – my essay at Buzzfeed

Posted on June 3, 2015 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

A bit late to my own story here, as a reporting trip intervened, but but a couple weeks ago I wrote an essay for Buzzfeed about the overselling of medical genom...

Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science/Medicine/Read Two

The gassy dead. A million-genome march. How to do science.

Posted on January 23, 2015 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

What to do with the dead? This timeless problem took extra urgency in Victorian London. Excerpted from the book Dirty Old London, by Lee Jackson, in the Guardia...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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