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Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
Written by Kevin J. Mitchell
Narrated by Michael Page
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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.
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.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Truly excellent and highly recommended. It is just so well written. Much of the content wasn't new to me but he expresses ideas so clearly, and with the appropriate rigor and nuance, that is well worth your time.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A lot of important information in a short book about the brain.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love love love this book very interesting, disagree on psychiatric disorders not being selected for because of low fertility, but still thought provoking views
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The whole book was explained very well but the very last bit of this book was an absolute eye opener.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5100 recomendados gran libro para aprender y entender al ser
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This book want to be technical. However, in my opinion it uses too many caveats, too many convoluted sentences and not enough reference to scientific papers and experiments.
It falls strangely between neuroscience and social science / philosophy. The message is blurry. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A 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!