Nature vs nurture: why parents ... Parents matter, says King’s College London professor of behavioural genetics Robert Plomin in his recently published book, Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are.

Plomin, on the other hand, does not mention race at all in Blueprint – as with his recent book which looked at the role of genetics in education G is for Genes.

Robert Plomin’s book Blueprint is subtitled How DNA makes us who ... and nurturing role of the parent and the recalcitrance of the child is rooted in genetics and the very nature of nurture, ...

There's many things kids do to that are blamed on poor parenting. However, some things children do to drive us mad are actually down to genetics, according to search.If traits passed on by your ...

It turns out that nature trumps nurture. After analysing the GCSE results of 5474 pairs of twins – 2008 of them identical – the team found that genes accounted for 52 per cent of the ...

Professor Robert Plomin talks to Jim Al-Khalili about what makes some people smarter than others and why he is fed up with the genetics of intelligence being ignored. Show more Professor Robert ...

In the prologue of his new book Blueprint, psychologist Robert Plomin explains that he has been waiting 30 years to write this. In part, he says, his “cowardice” in the face of the personally ...

Robert Plomin’s book Blueprint is subtitled How DNA makes us who we are. But a more accurate subtitle might be How DNA makes us what we are rather than anything else, such as childhood. As ...

Professor Robert Plomin talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the genetics of intelligence. Skip to content. Watch Live. Home. News. Sport. Business. Innovation ...