Uncovering the Science of Identity: Exploring How DNA Determines Our Characteristics

M. T. Philipps: With a culture that strives to always present an opinion that coheres to a rigid, politically correct, status quo, this book dares to step outside the bounds. Although some of the hypotheses are controversial, many are thought-provoking, and worthy of consideration.

M. T. Philipps, author of “Keeping Calm “

United States on Nov 01, 2023

styvwerx: This book pretty much emphatically decides the nature versus nurture argument. Nature wins.
With knowledge, we all win, and this helps us be winners.

United States on Aug 09, 2023

Lisa: Easy to understand and quite informative. I liked it so much I bought a copy for a friend.

United States on Aug 07, 2023

Lorena Orive: Excelente libro. Disfruté mucho aprender acerca de lo que hacen nuestros genes y reflexionar sobre la diferencia entre con lo que nacemos y cómo
Nos desarrollamos por la educación que recibimos.

Mexico on Mar 17, 2023

Santi Prasad Chatterjee: Great science cutting edge

India on Jul 25, 2021

Client d'Amazon: Un air frais dans le conflit entre tout culture et tout nature
Cet air revigorant est d’autant acceptable que l’auteur n’est pas connu pour des opinions condamnées par le politiquement correct
De la génétique sans idéologie, très convaincante

France on Feb 03, 2020

Francoys Gagne: Je ne l'ai pas encore terminé, mais cette recension relativement vulgarisée d'un sujet éminemment complexe réussit à mettre parfaitement en évidence les principales découvertes de la génétique du comportement. Les sujets les plus délicats et les plus controversés sont clairement abordés et de façon très claire et concise. Bref, le 'gourou' de ce champ d'étude réussit une fois de plus un coup de circuit.

Canada on Dec 05, 2019

Hazelly: Dna is important, we pass so much
It's been a pleasure to read this book

Italy on Oct 15, 2019

J. Wells: The ageless argument on whether our behavior and intelligence is mostly shaped by environment or by heredity, often referred to as “Nature vs. Nurture”, may finally have an answer: “The Nature of Nurture”. Authored by perhaps the world’s leading behavioral geneticist, Dr. Robert Plomin, “Blueprint” represents the culmination of his 45 years of research into this very subject.

To a layperson, the obvious question that comes to mind is how is it even possible to disentangle which behavioral traits are due to nature or nurture? There happens to be two very simple answers to this question: large longitudinal twin and adoption studies combined with the ongoing decoding of the human genome.

With Blueprint, Plomin is leveraging the late stage of his distinguished career to publish the culmination of his life’s work on this controversial subject. He’s certainly cognizant of the ideological resistance in the social sciences to any form of genetic explanations, as the prevailing orthodoxy assumes that only environment, and particularly parenting, are causal in largely shaping who we are and our life outcomes.

The Nature of Nurture
Blueprint’s main...

United States on Oct 07, 2019

Book Fanatic: This book discusses an important topic and one that should inform our policy decisions. Unfortunately it does not and this topic is generally taboo. The bottom line, supported by massive amounts of evidence by the way, is that the most important systematic influences on who we are and what we become our our genes.

I give the author high marks for the courage to write this book and the first part of it was really outstanding. I was a little disappointed in the second part because I don't think the author's evidence support some of his conclusions. As of yet the correlations are not strong enough and there's way too much individual variation. To his credit Plomin admits and even shows in graphs the massive amount of overlap between individuals of different groups, but then he makes statements that seem to ignore what he just demonstrated.

For example he says based on DNA alone you could predict that he is tall. His polygenic score for height is in the 90th percentile. And he is tall, however his own scatterplot shows a significant portion of the individuals in the 90th percentile of polygenic scores for height around the normal range. And there are plenty of people...

United States on Nov 21, 2018