Genetics and Experience

'A splendid book. It is a very easy read, it is very interesting and the messages are important ones that are presented in a lively but balanced fashion... Plomin has written with his usual clarity, making complex ideas come across in a simple and easy to understand manner. The book is helpfully provocative without being polemical' - Michael Rutter, Institute of Psychiatry, London How much of a role do our genes play in our responses to events in our environment? This volume explores this question by examining nature and nurture in terms of their interplay in the development of individual differences. Beginning with a discussion of how contemporary research and theory in genetics and in the environment are evolving towards each other, Plomin explores such topics as genetic contributions to environmental measures both within and outside the family, such as friends and life events. The book concludes with a theory of the genetics of experience.Plomin, Robert is the author of 'Genetics and Experience', published 1994 under ISBN 9780803954212 and ISBN 0803954212.