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Innate - How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are (Hardcover)
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Innate - How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are (Hardcover)
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A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more
innate than you think What makes you the way you are-and what makes
each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading
neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces
human diversity and individual differences to their deepest level:
in the wiring of our brains. Deftly guiding us through important
new research, including his own groundbreaking work, he explains
how variations in the way our brains develop before birth strongly
influence our psychology and behavior throughout our lives, shaping
our personality, intelligence, sexuality, and even the way we
perceive the world. We all share a genetic program for making a
human brain, and the program for making a brain like yours is
specifically encoded in your DNA. But, as Mitchell explains, the
way that program plays out is affected by random processes of
development that manifest uniquely in each person, even identical
twins. The key insight of Innate is that the combination of these
developmental and genetic variations creates innate differences in
how our brains are wired-differences that impact all aspects of our
psychology-and this insight promises to transform the way we see
the interplay of nature and nurture. Innate also explores the
genetic and neural underpinnings of disorders such as autism,
schizophrenia, and epilepsy, and how our understanding of these
conditions is being revolutionized. In addition, the book examines
the social and ethical implications of these ideas and of new
technologies that may soon offer the means to predict or manipulate
human traits. Compelling and original, Innate will change the way
you think about why and how we are who we are.
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