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How Do Genes Influence Our Behaviour? - Robert Plomin | Modern Wisdom Podcast 353
Robert Plomin, is a psychologist, geneticist and an author.
Separating the influence of nature and nurture is something everyone considers. Robert is the 71st most cited psychologist of the 20th century and has run the largest and most clinically detailed twin and adoption studies in history to finally provide definitive answers to these fundamental questions.
Expect to learn how much of who we are can be attributed to our environment and how much was predisposed by our genetics, why parenting doesn't make a difference, why the choice of school your child goes to only impacts 1% of their outcomes, whether penis size is heritable, if there is a gay gene or not and much more...
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00:00 Intro
01:42 What are Behavioural Genetics?
04:22 Nature & Nurture
17:52 How Genetics Are Studied
22:39 Biggest Ever Twin Study
27:39 Do Genes Influence Behaviour & Health?
36:32 Heritability of Different Traits
50:09 Seeking Happiness
55:57 Heritability of Sexual Preference
58:41 Do Children Behave Like Their Parents?
1:03:22 Non-Genetic Impacts on Behaviour
1:09:54 Educating Children on Genetics
1:23:38 DNA Dating
1:29:51 Increasing Equality of Opportunity
1:35:08 Living With Acceptance of Genetics
1:39:49 Where to Find Robert
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