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The Doyen Of Behavioural Genetics On Untangling Nature And Nurture — Robert Plomin

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Genetics Is Making Us Not Making Us

There's genetic influence on most of the environmental measures that we use in the social sciences. You select kids who do well at school, who are bright and have the get-go. It's not added value of the private school. And a, for example, the most highly heritable cognitive trait is vocabulary. So i'd like people to stop and think about what about genetics?

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