Robert Plomin

'Mind-blowing ... It is a hugely important book ... His story is crucial' Matt Ridley, The Times One of the world's top behavioural geneticists argues that we need a radical rethink about what makes us who we areThe 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.In Blueprint, 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, Blueprint shows how the DNA present in the single cell with which we all begin our lives can impact our behaviour as adults.

Le 1% de notre ADN qui nous rend unique détermine à plus de 50% ce que nous sommes. L'un des chercheurs en psychologie les plus réputés pour ses travaux sur la génétique du comportement apporte une démonstration passionnante du poids prépondérant de la "nature" sur la "culture". Nos capacités intellectuelles, notre introversion ou extraversion, notre vulnérabilité aux maladies mentales, et même le fait que nous soyons ou pas du matin, tous ces aspects de notre personnalité sont profondément façonnés par les différences d'ADN dont nous avons hérité. Robert Plomin, pionnier de la génétique comportementale, s'appuie sur les recherches de toute une vie pour démontrer que l'ADN est bien le facteur majeur qui construit notre personnalité. Nos familles, nos écoles et notre environnement importent, mais ils n'ont pas le même poids que nos gènes. Raison pour laquelle parents et enseignants devraient accepter les enfants tels qu'ils sont, plutôt que d'essayer de les modeler et de les faire aller dans certaines directions.Aujourd'hui, grâce à la révolution de l'ADN, il devient possible de prédire qui nous deviendrons, à la naissance, à partir de notre seule génétique. Comme le montre Plomin, les répercussions de cette évolution sont considérables. Écrit par un ponte de sa discipline, ce livre promet de changer la donne." Une explication claire et captivante de l'un des domaines les plus brûlants (et les plus intéressants) de la science, par son praticien peut-être le plus distingué. " Steven Pinker

Behavioral Genetics, Fifth Edition provides an engaging and clear overview of human and animal behavioral genetics that is designed to introduce students in the behavioral, biological, and social sciences to the field. With the addition of new chapters, thorough updating, and a new co-author, this latest edition represents the definitive introduction to behavioral the crossroads where the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and genetics intersect.

* Brief, accessible overview of methods and findings of behavioral genetics written by a leading scholar in the field.Unlike the encyclopedia, detailed and more advanced behavior genetics books currently available, Nature and Nurture has been written to fill a need for a brief, accessible book that "gives behavioral genetics away" to the interested reader.Emphasizing both environmental and hereditary influences, Plomin provides a balanced overview of the field with succinct coverage of theory, research, and methods. And throughout, he conveys the excitement the field has generated in providing new ways to look at issues in the social and behavioral sciences.

Le 1% de notre ADN qui nous rend unique détermine à plus de 50% ce que nous sommes. L'un des chercheurs en psychologie les plus réputés pour ses travaux sur la génétique du comportement apporte une démonstration passionnante du poids prépondérant de la "nature" sur la "culture".Nos capacités intellectuelles, notre introversion ou extraversion, notre vulnérabilité aux maladies mentales, et même le fait que nous soyons ou pas du matin, tous ces aspects de notre personnalité sont profondément façonnés par les différences d'ADN dont nous avons hérité. Robert Plomin, pionnier de la génétique comportementale, s'appuie sur les recherches de toute une vie pour démontrer que l'ADN est bien le facteur majeur qui construit notre personnalité. Nos familles, nos écoles et notre environnement importent, mais ils n'ont pas le même poids que nos gènes. Raison pour laquelle parents et enseignants devraient accepter les enfants tels qu'ils sont, plutôt que d'essayer de les modeler et de les faire aller dans certaines directions.Aujourd'hui, grâce à la révolution de l'ADN, il devient possible de prédire qui nous deviendrons, à la naissance, à partir de notre seule génétique. Comme le montre Plomin, les répercussions de cette évolution sont considérables. Écrit par un ponte de sa discipline, ce livre promet de changer la donne." Une explication claire et captivante de l'un des domaines les plus brûlants (et les plus intéressants) de la science, par son praticien peut-être le plus distingué. " Steven Pinker

How much of a role do our genes play in our responses to events in our environment? This volume explores this question by examining nature and nurture in terms of their interplay in the development of individual differences. Beginning with a discussion of how contemporary research and theory in genetics and in the environment are evolving towards each other, Plomin explores such topics as genetic contributions to environmental measures both within and outside the family, such as friends and life events. The book concludes with a theory of the genetics of experience.

In light of work by quantitative geneticists, the authors reconsider the interaction of heredity and environment in the development of individual differences during infancy and early childhood. Quantitative genetics offers a general theory of the development of individual differences that suggests novel concepts and research strategies: the idea that genetic influences operate in age-to-age change as well as in continuity, for example. Quantitative genetics also provides powerful methods to address questions of change and continuity which are helpfully introduced in this study. Longitudinal quantitative genetic research is essential to the understanding of developmental change and continuity. The largest and longes longitudinal adoption study is the Colorado Adoption Project, which has generated much of the rich data on the progress from infancy to early childhood on which the authors draw throughout the book.

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What are the origins of individual differences? Virtually no one studying human development today sees the nature/nurture question as an either-or one. However, very few developmental researchers as yet appreciate the extent to which it is now possible to map genetic influences in a range of domains from cognitive functioning to temperament all through the childhood years. (For example, although there is substantial genetic continuity for measures of general cognitive ability from infancy to early childhood, new genetic influences emerge to affect IQ in middle childhood, when specific cognitive abilities also begin to differentiate.) Even fewer developmental researchers appreciate the startling way in which expressions of the child's genetic endowment appear to affect what we have been accustomed to thinking of as stable environmental forces. In this book, three leading international authorities on behavior genetics and their collaborators present the most recent findings from the landmark Colorado Adoption Project. This first large-scale, longitudinal adoption study, launched in 1975, tracked the children, biological and adoptive parents, and home environments of 245 adoptive families and 245 matched non-adoptive families. Its design facilitated analyses of genetic and environmental influences on development of unparalleled scope and diversity - via both parent-offspring and sibling comparisons, and longitudinal and multivariate assessments. Following two introductory chapters, the authors focus successively on general and specific cognitive abilities, school achievement, language disorders, personality, stress, body size and obesity, motoric development, sex differences, competence, and family relationships. Before summarizing and concluding, they then turn to issues like the meaning of "shared" environment, the correlations and interactions between "nature" and "nurture," and the practical implications of the findings for adoption policy. Nature and Nurture

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