The Importance of Your DNA | Robert Plomin

Robert Plomin explains why DNA makes the difference in determining who we are.

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We all know that genes determine many of our characteristics - like our height, our eye colour, whether we can roll our tongues. But how about how likely we are to get divorced, our exam scores or the food we like? New paradigm-shifting research is showing that is not just our bodies that are determined by our genes, but our entire lives. So how has this been proven? Can we escape the fate given to us by our genes? And how should view ourselves and our society in reflection of these new findings?

In this course, Robert Plomin, the world's leading behavioural geneticist and author of Blueprint explains the ground-breaking research he's done studying twins, and explains how his findings prove that DNA differences are the major systematic force that shapes who we are as individuals. He dispels the common misunderstandings regarding what it means for a trait to be heritable, and looks at how a lack of focus on genetics has long slowed the development of medicine and psychology.

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Robert Plomin is an American psychologist and geneticist, who has made important contributions to the study of identical twins. He is the 71st most cited psychologist of the 20th century, and the author of several books on genetics and psychology, including Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are.

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