Moalem of "Survival of the Sickest" writes about the science of genetics and how it impacts our lives in ways we never would have imagined. These range from the possibility that bullying can have a life-long impact on its victims to the unexpected effect that widely used painkillers can have on a consumers with particular genetics. "It's a little bit scary," Nelson says of ways that genes can affect us and be passed down to future generations.
