There is no gene for the human spirit, declared the producers of the 1997 movie Gattaca, which related the sobering tale of a eugenic community that had overestimated the usefulness of genes in predicting a person's destiny. The movie's hero, Vincent, overcomes a damning genetic prognosis and resultant discrimination to become an astronaut, while the fall guy, Jerome, fails to achieve the athletic prowess supposedly encoded in his DNA.
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