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#211 — The Nature of Human Nature

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Parents Responding to Genetic Differences in Their Kids

When you strip out the influence of jeans, you find that jeans are accounting for half of those so called environmental differences among people. Parents who read a lot to their kids have kids who do better at reading at school. Increasingly, i think it's due to parents responding to genetic differences in their kids. In case parent people haven't realized this, first degree relatives like parents and offspring or siblings can be fifty per cent different genetically....

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