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Greg 
Gibson

Books about genetics, medicine, evolution, ethics, and society from a leading human geneticist.

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Available from Amazon and Kindle, June 2026

NATURAL VIRTUE: Table of Contents

Part A: Foundations

Chapter 1: Why Genetics Matters

Hierarchies of Worth and Duties of Care

Chapter 2: A Conversation

Aristotle, Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant and a Geneticst meet at a bar

Chapter 3: How do we Know?

From GWAS to Polygenic Scores

Chapter 4: Why is there Variation

Population genetics and the maintenance of diversity

Chapter 5: Genetics and Moral Sentiment

Exploring the biological roots of our ethical instincts.

Chapter 6: Toward a Genetic Moral Philosophy

Synthesizing science and philosophy for a new era.

Part B: ANTI-EUGENICS

Chapter 7: Health

Anti-eugenics and personalized medicine

Chapter 8: Education

Anti-eugenics and the meritocracy

Chapter 9: Gender

Anti-eugenics with respect to gender and sexual orientation

Chapter 10: Ancestry

Anti-eugenics in relation to race and ethnicity 

Chapter 11: Justice

Anti-eugenics and criminality - white and blue collar

Chapter 12: Virtue

Free will and Virtue Ethics in the Genetic Era

Previously Published

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It Takes a Genome

NON-FICTION

My first trade book, published in 2009, a description of how human genetics changed our understanding of how culture shaped common disease risk in the decade after the human genome was first sequenced.

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The first introductory text book in the post-human genome project era, explaining how genome sequencing, GWAS, polygenic scores, and integrative genomics are reshaping our understanding of common complex disease.

Sinauer Associates, 2014

(now Oxford University Press)

A Primer of Human Genetics

TEXT BOOK

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A Primer of Genome Science

TEXT BOOK

Co-written with Spencer Muse in 2001, updated in 2004 and 2009, and translated into 4 languages, this was one of the first text books of genome science.

Sinauer Associates, 2009

(now Oxford University Press)

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Welcome, enquirer

Hello! I'm Greg Gibson, a human geneticist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. I grew up in Canberra, started my career making flies grow legs on their heads in Basel, got interested in genetic variation and the use of contemporary genomics to study it at Stanford, moved to Ann Arbor then Raleigh, and have spent the last 15 years working on various aspects of human genetics.  I hope you'll find my new book, Natural Virtue, interesting.  

It is all about how genetics is a natural buffer against authoritarianism, while also being a call for renewed embrace of Aristotelian virtue ethics which, like genetics, gravitates toward the golden mean. A panacea for our times!

As Audre Lorde once wrote, "It is not our differences that divide us, it is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."

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I write about genetics and social issues every month or so at my substack, Genome's Take

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Here's a link to my Google Scholar page with 220 papers and 45,000 citations! 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=e4_ZXcwAAAAJ&hl=en

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Please visit ggibsongt.wixsite.com/gibsongatech

if you are interested in finding out more about my recent research.

Contact

For media requests, collaborations, or general questions, please reach me out at ggibson.gt@gmail.com

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I strive to respond personally to every message, though it may take a little time.

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