S5.14 Genes, brains and the mind: How much of your personality is encoded in your DNA?
Genetics Unzipped
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Genetics Unzipped Interview With Kevin Mitchell
Geneticist and neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell talks about the role of genetics on personality. He explains how early brain development can predispose a person to one personality type over another. A lot of evidence comes from twin studies, where people who are more related to each other should be more similar to each other. The surprising thing that came from these studies was that for a lot of these personality constructs that I was talking about earlier, they're quite genetic.
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