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Book

Blueprint : how DNA makes us who we are

Call Number

  • 572.86 P7294 (CEN)

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Edition

First MIT Press paperback edition.

Publication Information

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2019.

Physical Description

xiii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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.

Notes

"With a new afterword for the paperback edition."

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
  • Afterword to the new paperback edition.

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