These silences remind me how unfamiliar many of us are with the notion that families share environments as well as chromosomes or with the concept that our genes work in communion with substances streaming in from the larger, ecological world. What runs in families does not necessarily run in blood. And our genes are less an inherited set of teacups enclosed in a cellular china cabinet that they are plates used in a busy diner. Cracks, chips, and scrapes accumulate. Steingraber says we will have to adopt a new way of thinking about chemicals.
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