Ian Sample

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2,123 appearances 29 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

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Science Weekly · Reflecting pool algae: the science Trump needs to know · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

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Science Weekly · Nature or nurture: can genes make us behave ‘badly’? · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

Catherine Page Harden is a behavioral geneticist.

She studies how our genes impact who we are and the choices we make.

She's used to her work attracting interest, but among her posts one morning was something jaw-dropping.

The man had read about her work in a local magazine and he had some questions.

It became the jumping off point for her new book, Original Sin, on the genetics of wrongdoing, the problem of blame and the future of forgiveness.

So today, I talked to Paige about what our genes can predict about our behavior and asked, if our genes make us more likely to commit a crime, are we just as guilty?

I'm the Guardian science editor, Ian Sample, and this is Science Weekly.

Catherine Page Harden, welcome to Science Weekly.

Now, the letter we just heard about came at an interesting time because it coincided with a paper your lab produced linking DNA differences with people's tendency to behave in ways that we as a society punish.

So take me through that research.

What were you looking at and what did you find?

And there's an idea in there then that people can be genetically predisposed or more at risk of criminality.

And that's obviously controversial.

It's unsettling in some ways.

But you make the case in the book that there are many other things that we used to put down to sort of nurture environment that actually have turned out to have these genetic components.

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