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LESSON 1 · The DNA Blueprint

A Better Question

So the old fight has the wrong shape. It was never genes or environment, like two boxers in a ring.

Think of it as a recipe. Your genes are the ingredients you start with; your environment is the cooking. Change the heat, the timing, or what gets added along the way, and the same ingredients become a very different dish. The real question is not which one matters more, but how they cook together.