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Sport: A Biological, Philosophical, and Cultural Perspective

Jay Schulkin

Print publication date: 2016

Print ISBN-13: 9780231176767

Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: September 2017

DOI: 10.7312/columbia/9780231176767.001.0001

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Genetics, Epigenetics, and Talent

Genetics, Epigenetics, and Talent

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(p.49) 4 Genetics, Epigenetics, and Talent
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Sport
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Jay Schulkin

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Columbia University Press
DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231176767.003.0004

Looks at genes and their expression in athletic capability. There is no athletic gene; there is a general confluence of specific and general capabilities that converge on athletic expression. Such events reflect experience, culture and epigenetic expression; the absolute continuity of biology and culture; both a reflection of one another.

Keywords:   Genes, Epigenetics, Expression, Athleticism, Capability, Biology

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