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So a very interesting part of biology of that.
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Let's talk about genes and body weight.
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How much is body weight affected by genes?
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Well it's affected a lot by behavior of course-how much one eats.
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It's affected a lot by culture, I mean
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we've got rampant things like obesity in the United States,
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you've got almost none of it in a country like Somalia,
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but then biology is also an important player potentially.
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I'd like to have you guys do a little vote with your clickers
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and I'd like you to estimate--now somebody responded already
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before I've described the question but maybe it doesn't matter.
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How much of the variation in body weight in a population