Exploding the Gene Myth

In his review of the book's first edition, Alan H. Goodman praised it as a "worthwhile read" and "an antidote to the rise of geneticization", while also admitting that he did not consider it to be "categorically the best book it could have been".^[3] In another mixed review, William J. McIntyre criticized the authors' biased presentation of the role played by DNA in human traits, while also describing the book as "good and valuable reading".^[4] Behavior geneticist David Rowe praised the book's discussion of socially controversial aspects of human genetics, but claimed that it failed to provide "either an evenhanded or accurate treatment of molecular and behavioral genetics."^[5]