Blueprint : how DNA makes us who we are / Robert Plomin.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]Description: xiii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780262039161
- 0262039168
- 9780241367698
- 0241367697
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 572.86 P729 | Available | 33111009303666 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Forthcoming from the MIT Press.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-248) and index.
Prologue -- Part One. Why DNA matters. Disentangling nature and nurture -- How do we know that DNA makes us who we are? -- The nature of nurture -- DNA matters more as time goes by -- Abnormal is normal -- Generalist genes -- Why children in the same family are so different -- The DNA blueprint -- Equal opportunity and meritocracy -- Part Two. The DNA revolution. DNA : The basics -- Gene-hunting -- The DNA fortune teller -- Predicting who we are -- Our future is DNA -- Epilogue.
In 'Blueprint', behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power to predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses from birth. A century of genetic research shows that DNA differences inherited from our parents are the consistent lifelong sources of our psychological individuality--the blueprint that makes us who we are. This, says Plomin, is a game-changer. It calls for a radical rethinking of what makes us who were are.