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How DNA makes us who we are
Is our personality shaped more by our environment or is it all due to our innate disposition? A question that humanity has pondered for centuries seems closer to being resolved with the development of genetics: Both factors have an understandable influence, but genes dominate this battle. We are who we are not because of our parents' upbringing, but because of the genes they passed on to us.
ABOUT THE BOOK
You may not like the idea, but it's a fact: the older you get, the more you resemble your parents. In fact, inherited differences in DNA represent the greatest systemic force in shaping our personality, bigger, than environmental influences, education, education, and random events, and their expression increases with age! We live in a revolutionary time of new discoveries that are changing clinical psychology and research, and as we fully enter the age of personal genomics, they will affect us all.
Prof. Robert Plomin has been involved in genetic research for almost fifty years. He directs long-term studies of twins, siblings, and adopted children, and in this book explains not only the laws and methods of behavioral genetics, but especially the impact of the often provocative research results on many fields. It appeals to parents and school systems, urges greater tolerance of differences between children, and proves that genetics is the main reason why people differ in their learning and cognitive abilities. He concludes with a discussion of the ethical issues raised by the possibilities of genome analysis of embryos and young children, and uses the example of analysing his polygenic scores to show how to face his genetic results bravely.
The code of life will probably make you rethink your views on parenting, education and life-shaping events.
IN THE BOOK YOU WILL LEARN, AMONG OTHER THINGS
- why perseverance, the power of positive thinking or ten thousand hours of training won't change your life as much as they claim
- that we change our environment by genetic disposition, so the net effect of environment is much less than we thought
- why the choice of school or parental attitude is not the main determinant of academic achievement
- why it's useless to blame yourself for a few extra pounds, for being prone to depression or for slow learning
- that there is no one specific gene for psychiatric disorders
- that polygenic scores are probabilistic, not deterministic, i.e. that genes are not destiny, but that it is still good to go with them rather than against them
- about the exciting prospects of genotype-specific treatments and new possibilities for prevention
- why fears that the future of humanity will degenerate into a division into genetic castes are false
- that genetics is too important to be dealt with only by geneticists
