Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
Autor Robert Plominen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 oct 2018
The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion, our vulnerability to mental illness, even whether we are a morning person - all of these aspects of our personality are profoundly shaped by our inherited DNA differences.
InBlueprint, Robert Plomin, a pioneer in the field of behavioural genetics, draws on a lifetime's worth of research to make the case that DNA is the most important factor shaping who we are. Our families, schools and the environment around us are important, but they are not as influential as our genes. This is why, he argues, teachers and parents should accept children for who they are, rather than trying to mould them in certain directions. Even the environments we choose and the signal events that impact our lives, from divorce to addiction, are influenced by our genetic predispositions. Now, thanks to the DNA revolution, it is becoming possible to predict who we will become, at birth, from our DNA alone. As Plomin shows us, these developments have sweeping implications for how we think about parenting, education, and social mobility.
A game-changing book by a leader in the field,Blueprintshows how the DNA present in the single cell with which we all begin our lives can impact our behaviour as adults.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241367698
ISBN-10: 0241367697
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241367697
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Robert
Plominis
a
leading
behavioural
geneticist
who
works
at
King's
College,
London.
He
has
published
more
than
800
papers
in
scientific
journals
and
is
the
author
of
the
best-selling
textbook
in
the
field.
In
2012,
he
was
awarded
a
highly
prestigious
five-year
Advanced
Investigator
Award
from
the
European
Research
Council.
He
was
the
youngest
president
of
the
international
Behaviour
Genetics
Association,
and
has
been
given
lifetime
achievement
awards
from
that
association
as
well
the
American
Psychological
Association
and
the
Society
for
Research
in
Child
Development,
among
others.
Recenzii
It
is
a
hugely
important
book
-
and
the
story
is
very
well
told.
Plomin's
writing
combines
passion
with
reason
(and
passion
for
reason)
so
fluently
that
it
is
hard
to
believe
this
is
his
first
book
for
popular
consumption,
after
more
than
800
scientific
publications.
His
story
is
crucial.
An important book, a must-read guide to one enormous aspect of the human future
I cannot tell you how well thumbed this book is . . . every single person listening to me qualifies to read this book because it's about human beings . . . this is our story
A challenging and thought-provoking new book.
Important new evidence in a never-ending argument
You can't read the book without seeing the world afresh.
An extraordinary book
Plomin writes with authority about the ongoing genomic revolution that will unquestionably transform our lives and society.
No-one should be making any proposals about how to improve education without being aware of the contents of, and ideally having read, Robert Plomin's new book,Blueprint. Uncomfortable, but essential reading.
Plomin takes recent genetic research and draws some provocative conclusions.
What Plomin is saying at the moment is controversial, but it is a message that every teacher needs to at least consider carefully and objectively.
A clear and engaging explanation of one of the hottest (and most interesting) fields in science, by perhaps its most distinguished practitioner
Some blueprint, that creates the rainbow spectrum of humanity! Plomin is a masterful teacher as well as brilliant scientist. He coolly lays out the astonishing new evidence that genetic differences matter far more than environmental ones in producing individual differences in ability and character, and argues passionately that, if we want to build a fair society, we must plan accordingly
This fascinating book, by the doyen of behavioural genetics, provides a superb introduction to the genetics of who we are. It is beautifully written and very challenging, but it is a challenge that we all need to reflect on
Robert Plomin's research has been educating us about environmental and genetic influences on psychological characteristics for decades. This is an accessible and pacy summary of the field's accumulated results, with provocative future-gazing on the uses of genetic material for prediction about people's lives
Robert Plomin's engaging book, drawing on his 35 years of research experience, makes the complex field of behavioural genetics accessible for a non-expert reader. An important work,Blueprintcalls for a society-wide conversation to debate the ethics of this new knowledge and our responsibilities, as this shouldn't just be left in the hands of geneticists
If anyone is going to write a book that challenges deeply held beliefs about who we are, it is Plomin: a psychologist with 45 years' experience in research, but with an undimmed passion for his subject.
Plomin finally finds himself at the crest of the wave as cutting edge research begins to back what have long been theories and hypotheses.
An important book, a must-read guide to one enormous aspect of the human future
I cannot tell you how well thumbed this book is . . . every single person listening to me qualifies to read this book because it's about human beings . . . this is our story
A challenging and thought-provoking new book.
Important new evidence in a never-ending argument
You can't read the book without seeing the world afresh.
An extraordinary book
Plomin writes with authority about the ongoing genomic revolution that will unquestionably transform our lives and society.
No-one should be making any proposals about how to improve education without being aware of the contents of, and ideally having read, Robert Plomin's new book,Blueprint. Uncomfortable, but essential reading.
Plomin takes recent genetic research and draws some provocative conclusions.
What Plomin is saying at the moment is controversial, but it is a message that every teacher needs to at least consider carefully and objectively.
A clear and engaging explanation of one of the hottest (and most interesting) fields in science, by perhaps its most distinguished practitioner
Some blueprint, that creates the rainbow spectrum of humanity! Plomin is a masterful teacher as well as brilliant scientist. He coolly lays out the astonishing new evidence that genetic differences matter far more than environmental ones in producing individual differences in ability and character, and argues passionately that, if we want to build a fair society, we must plan accordingly
This fascinating book, by the doyen of behavioural genetics, provides a superb introduction to the genetics of who we are. It is beautifully written and very challenging, but it is a challenge that we all need to reflect on
Robert Plomin's research has been educating us about environmental and genetic influences on psychological characteristics for decades. This is an accessible and pacy summary of the field's accumulated results, with provocative future-gazing on the uses of genetic material for prediction about people's lives
Robert Plomin's engaging book, drawing on his 35 years of research experience, makes the complex field of behavioural genetics accessible for a non-expert reader. An important work,Blueprintcalls for a society-wide conversation to debate the ethics of this new knowledge and our responsibilities, as this shouldn't just be left in the hands of geneticists
If anyone is going to write a book that challenges deeply held beliefs about who we are, it is Plomin: a psychologist with 45 years' experience in research, but with an undimmed passion for his subject.
Plomin finally finds himself at the crest of the wave as cutting edge research begins to back what have long been theories and hypotheses.