About Peter Gluckman: Sir Peter David Gluckman is a New Zealand paediatrician. He is currently the inaugural Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Prime Minister.
...it is entirely illogical to consider biology in dichotomous terms of genes and environment—all of biology is based on the continuous interaction of both.
It is often thought that the life of the hunter-gatherer was one of feast and famine. But most available data suggest that they were surprisingly healthy and had a fairly stable diet and lifestyle. Not so the primitive farmers. In years when the crop...
