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Not in your genes

Paperback • 2017 • English • 1. edition

Not in your genes: the real reasons children are like their parents

By James, Oliver

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About the book

Professor Robert Plomin, the world's leading geneticist, said in 2014 of his search for genes that explain differences in our psychology: 'I have been looking for these genes for fifteen years. I don't have any'. Using a mixture of famous and ordinary people, Oliver James drills deep down into the childhood causes of our individuality, revealing why our upbringing, not our genes, plays such an important role in our wellbeing and success. The implications are huge: as adults we can change, we can...Show more

Family psychology

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ISBN

9780091947682

Publisher

Vermilion

Published year

2017

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Not in your genes

Format

Paperback

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