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From Weight To Career Success, How Your Genes Can Predict Your Future

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Published: July 20, 2025 by RHJ Producer

Can your genes predict how much money you’ll make in your career? Dalton Conley, a sociologist, explains how our genes can be predictive of all aspects of our life – from BMI to who we’re friends with – in his new book, The Social Genome. Would you want to know the odds your genes have predetermined about life outcomes?


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  • Dalton Conley, Author, The Social Genome, Henry Putnam University Professor in Sociology, Princeton University

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  • Princeton University: Dalton Conley
  • LinkedIn: Dalton Conley
  • The Social Genome
Program #: 25-29Segment Type: Feature StoriesTopics: Career| Children| Consumerism| Disease| Education| Psychology| Public Health| Risk| SociologyGuests: Dalton ConleyPublications: The Social GenomeInstitutions & Organizations: Henry Putnam UniversityHost: Elizabeth WestfieldProducers: Jason Dickey| Kristen Farrah
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