A user's manual for understanding why we do the things we do,
"Living With Our Genes" is the first comprehensive investigation of
the crucial link between DNA and behavior.
Nowhere is the nature-nurture controversy being more arduously
tested than in the labs of world-renowned molecular geneticist Dean
Hamer, whose cutting-edge discoveries of specific genes linked to
behavioral traits -- such as anxiety, thrill-seeking, and
homosexuality -- prove without a doubt that we are in large part
hardwired to behave the way we do. Hamer is one of a small group of
researchers mapping the human personality, and his findings help,
in part, to explain why one brother becomes a Wall Street trader
while his sibling remains content as a librarian; why some people
like to bungee-jump while others play Scrabble.
"Living With Our Genes" helps readers understand their
particular genetic makeup and decipher the mysteries of genetically
inherited behavioral traits. Hamer shows that much of our behavior
-- how much we eat, weigh, drink, use drugs, and have sex -- is
heavily influenced by genes. He also sheds light on some of the
most compelling and vexing aspects of personality, such as shyness,
aggression, depression, and intelligence.
In the tradition of Listening to Prozac, this is a wonderfully
anecdote-filled book that explains how we arrive at the idea of
self in an ever-changing scientific landscape.
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