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Robert Plomin — How DNA Makes Us Who We Are (EP.69)

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Genetic Influence on Environmental Measures

Most of the environmental measures we use in psychology show genetic influence. The most heritable psycognative trait is vocabulary. People think of genetics as hard wiring in the brain, but i don't think that's the way it works. There are thousands of single geanistic disorders which can also be determined by genes. If you have this genelton disease for hunting, no matter what your sise regime or nutrition will do, you'll die from hunting unless something else kills you first. That's what mendelon learned about with his prolem sine he was born.

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