How we became who we are | Robert Plomin, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Matt Ridley
19Robert Plomin, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Matt Ridley discuss the nature nurture debate.
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Stressing the importance of heredity is something associated with the right. Focusing on environmental factors with the left.
Should we excise politics from the nature nurture debate? Should we focus on the new data coming from twin studies that identifies the impact of heredity on outcomes we have traditionally thought environmental? Or is this a dangerous theory with such damaging consequences for society that it should not be given air time at all?
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Hugely influential geneticist Robert Plomin, libertarian journalist and author of The Evolution of Everything Matt Ridley, and award-winning journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explore the relevance of politics in the nature/nurture debate. Mary Ann Sieghart hosts.
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