Kevin J. Mitchell
Auteur de Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
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Kevin J. Mitchell is an Associate Professor at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics and Institute of Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland.
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Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are par Kevin J. Mitchell
A really fine book explaining how genetics affect our brains and minds. There are certain traits that are very strongly genetically associated, but in identical twins, with 100% identical DNA, if one twin has a trait the other twin only has 50% chance of having the same trait. How can that be?This book explains! A lot of who we are is “innate” in the sense that we are born that way, but our DNA has not precisely determined what we are, it has only prepared a situation where there are certain odds that we will be one way or the other. Well written and clear. I love it when a real scientist writes as well as a good science journalist!… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 101
- Popularité
- #188,710
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 11