The Genome and the Adjunct

by Lee Shainen I’M NOT STUPID. However, I admit to being somewhat mathematically challenged. My first algebra class was in 1967. I was distracted. It was not the best of times for learning math. For years, I blamed “Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll” for my ineptitude, but maybe I just didn’t have the math aptitude, or, more likely, I cut class to avoid the stress of not knowing what was going on. We live in an era where age-old questions regarding the influences of heredity and environment are being sorted out in laboratories by scientists studying the human genome. […]