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Blueprint : how DNA makes us who we are / Robert Plomin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]Description: xiii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780262039161
  • 0262039168
  • 9780241367698
  • 0241367697
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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