Stuart richie is a lecturer in the social genetic and developmental psychiatry centre at king's college london. His research focuses on intelligence and cognitive ities, using genetics and brain imaging to shed light on why some people are smarter than others. Brighter parents both have more books at home and tend to have brighter children because they have passed on a genetic tendency. Parents don't just socialize their children into a love of reading and learning. The tendencies to be smarter, more inquisitive, more academically inclined,. are all really all linked in two genetics.
We delve back into the archive to 2018, when we held a debate getting to the heart of nature vs nurture. How much do our parents influence the people that we eventually turn out to be? We were joined by Professor of Behavioural Genetics Robert Plomin, the Developmental Clinical Psychologist Susan Pawlby, therapist, parenting counsellor and broadcaster Ann Pleshette Murphy, and Stuart Ritchie, lecturer in social genetics and developmental psychiatry and author of Science Fictions. Hosting the debate was Doctor and broadcaster, Dr Xand van Tulleken.
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