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Nature vs. Nurture, Neurogenetics, Personality, Autism, Schizophrenia, Synesthesia & Free Will | Kevin Mitchell | 78

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Is There One Gene for One Trait?

Yemean: Most traits that we're interested in have many genes, each of which makes a small contribution to that trait. He says it's not possible for the human genum to incode the outcome really specifically. But evolution done is build in lots of robustness - all these proteins thare all sort of doing the same work. If maybe there's a bit less of them here, there might be a bit more of another one to compensate. Yemean: Weere never going to get identical clones, a out in a population because of genetic variation.

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