Of her three points, the last on epigenetics may be the most important. A rabbit ran across the lawn. The Black Lab took off like a shot, carrying half of the porch with him across the yard. Alas, academia seems to have too many boxes with similar contents in their central nervous systems. I work on toxins and behavior.
Individuals differ in sensitivity to many foods and environmental agents.
Genes didn't put tetethyl lead in gasoline or, for those who have seen Erin Brockovitch, chromium VI in the PGE processing system. This is a far lower total than expected, and dramatically undermines claims that human beings are prisoners of their genes. Most readers of this list have doubtless been groaning at these headlines that Ian has been posting since, of course, had we been endowed with the previously estimated 100,000 genes, the nature-nurture issues would have been the same. Reporters are concluding from our unexpectedly small number of genes that it's really nurture over nature after all. It has been clear for several decades that complexity is wrought in many other ways, of which I will lift up three.