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

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The Magic Words Will Pay You to Graduate School

I wasn't doing this for ouno some to develop an occupation. But i just hated philosophy, which i was in for a while,. decided i was an empiricist and i woull liked psychology instead. And i had this wonderful adviser who said, what about graduate school? None of my family went to university, let alone graduate school. So he helped me apply. An university of texas at austin came along, and they said, the magic words will pay you to go to graduate school. It turns out they had the only programme in behavioral genetics in the world. I thought it was so brilliant. Here they're showing that, mostly in animal studies at the time,

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