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Innate : How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are by Kevin J. Mitchell [Mitchell, Kevin J.] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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 in

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Author
Kevin J. Mitchell [Mitchell, Kevin J.]
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Published
2018
Language
EN
ISBN
9780545142915
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Medical, Nature, Children'S