2016 Huxley Memorial Lecture by Margaret Lock by RoyalAnthropologicalInst published on 2016-11-15T11:25:42Z Mutable Environments and Permeable Human Bodies Professor Margaret Lock, McGill University Mapping the human genome produced unexpected findings that paved the way for recognition of the contribution of environments external and internal, to health and illness in the human body. We live now with a ‘reactive genome’ in which environments – nurture, or its lack - account overwhelmingly for the human condition. In this lecture, focusing on debates about the anthropocene, epigenetics, and the metagenomic human body, I will highlight how environments are contestable and moveable, and with what effects.
