How you are raised and what god you worship, doesn't that have an effect on who we are? That has nothing to do with jeanes. There're lots of other things that make us who we are, and you know, that have nothing, again, to do with our genetic propensities. And i'm sure robert and stuart would agree, that there's plenty of evidence that what we do as parents makes a huge difference. The brain is incredibly plastic in the first few years of life. We see this from things like ramanian orphan studies. These are the kids who were institutionalized atno 200 thousand of them were in institutions in rumania. So
We delve back into the archive to 2018, when we held a debate getting to the heart of nature vs nurture. How much do our parents influence the people that we eventually turn out to be? We were joined by Professor of Behavioural Genetics Robert Plomin, the Developmental Clinical Psychologist Susan Pawlby, therapist, parenting counsellor and broadcaster Ann Pleshette Murphy, and Stuart Ritchie, lecturer in social genetics and developmental psychiatry and author of Science Fictions. Hosting the debate was Doctor and broadcaster, Dr Xand van Tulleken.
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