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A geneticist and internationally recognized anti-racism educator provides a powerful, science-based rebuttal to common fallacies about human difference. Well-meaning physicians, parents, and even scientists today often spread misinformation about what biology can and can't tell us about our bodies, minds, and identities. In this accessible, myth-busting book, geneticist Shoumita Dasgupta draws on the latest science to correct common misconceptions about how much of our social identities are actually based in genetics. Dasgupta weaves together history, current affairs, and cutting-edge science to break down how genetic concepts are misused and how we can approach scientific evidence in a socially responsible way. With a unifying and intersectional approach disentangling biology from bigotry, the book moves beyond race and gender to incorporate categories like sexual orientation, disability, and class. Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins is an invaluable, empowering resource for biologists, geneticists, science educators, and anyone working against bias in their community.

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Shoumita Dasgupta is the daughter of Bengali immigrants, a woman of color in STEM, and a scientist educator and geneticist. She is professor of medicine and assistant dean of Diversity & Inclusion at Boston University, a Fulbright Specialist, and a member of the inaugural cohort of faculty affiliates at the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. Based in Los Angeles, Sharmila Devar is a successful working actress with over twenty years of experience performing in TV, film, commercial, animation, and theater projects. She has a BA in economics from The University of Chicago where, thanks to a wide-ranging Common Core, she expanded her love of all things storytelling. She has performed at Chicago's prestigious Steppenwolf Theatre and is known for her recurring television roles on Scandal and in the Star Wars animated world. As a narrator, she has voiced a variety of single and multi-narrator audiobooks-ranging from POC/women's history to pre-school and middle-grade children's series, to self-help to young adult mystery to literary fiction, with a specialty in South Asian diaspora stories and romances. Her narration has been described as ""vivid and full of emotion,"" and she has been praised for her characterizations by Library Journal and InD'tale Magazine. A voracious reader, she counts her curiosity about complicated humans and her passion to bring all their varied stories to life as some of her best qualities. Based in Los Angeles, Sharmila Devar is a successful working actress with over twenty years of experience performing in TV, film, commercial, animation, and theater projects. She has a BA in economics from The University of Chicago where, thanks to a wide-ranging Common Core, she expanded her love of all things storytelling. She has performed at Chicago's prestigious Steppenwolf Theatre and is known for her recurring television roles on Scandal and in the Star Wars animated world. As a narrator, she has voiced a variety of single and multi-narrator audiobooks-ranging from POC/women's history to pre-school and middle-grade children's series, to self-help to young adult mystery to literary fiction, with a specialty in South Asian diaspora stories and romances. Her narration has been described as ""vivid and full of emotion,"" and she has been praised for her characterizations by Library Journal and InD'tale Magazine. A voracious reader, she counts her curiosity about complicated humans and her passion to bring all their varied stories to life as some of her best qualities.

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