Reading	Read by	Topic	Comments
Chapter 1	Aug. 27	Life: Intro to the wonder of the human genome	Lecture: Introduction
Chapter 2	Aug. 31	Species: Biological history of DNA, Evolution I	Lecture: Darwin, Mendel, and Genetics
Chapter 3	Sept 5	History: A history of genetics, discovery of DNA
Chapter 4	Sept 12	Fate: Genetic diseases, ethics of using genetic knowledge
Chapter 5	Sept 19	Environment: Nature vs Nurture	Lecture: The Discovery, Structure and Function of DNA Finish reading The Double Helix
Chapter 6	Sept 21	Intelligence: Is it genetics or education/cultural?
Chapter 7	Sept 26	Instinct: How much of our intellect is inherited?
Chapter X&Y	Oct 1	Conflict: "Battle of the Sexes"
Chapter 8	Oct 5	Self Interest: Junk DNA	Lecture: Computers and DNA
Chapter 9	Oct 10	Disease: Genetic engineering I
Chapter 10	Oct 15	Stress: The interaction between behavior and physiology
Chapter 11	Oct 19	Personality: Genetic bias in society	Lecture: Sequencing the Human Genome
Chapter 12	Oct 24	Self Assembly: How DNA produces an entire organism
Chapter 13	Oct 29	Pre-History: Geneology
Chapter 14	Nov 2	Immortality: Dying and the case for immortality
Chapter 15	Nov 5	Sex: Are gender traits inherited?
Chapter 16	Nov 9	Memory: Ditto for memory? Genetic engineering II	Lecture: Using BLAST to Search for Gene Sequences
Chapter 17	Nov 12	Death: Curing cancer
Chapter 18	Nov 16	Cures: Biotechnology, gene therapy, genetic engineering III
Chapter 19	Nov 19	Prevention: Genetic testing
Chapter 20	Nov 26	Politics: Epidemiology and genetics, epidemics	Lecture: Creating Ancestral Trees from DNA
Chapter 21	Nov 30	Eugenics: Genetic engineering by abortion, sterilization, and murder
Chapter 22	Dec 3	Free will: The gene for free will