How much do our genes determine about our lives, and can they influence traits like risk-taking, anti-social behavior or even violence? Ian Sample talks to Kathryn Paige Harden, a behavioral geneticist and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, who studies how genetic factors shape human behavior. In her book Original Sin she explains how nature and nurture together influence our likelihood of committing crimes, and asks whether the ’cause’ of our actions matters for how we think about culpability.
