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TRIGGERnometry

How Your DNA Made You Who You Are - Robert Plomin

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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SPONSORED BY:  *Ridge Wallet* Use Code “TRIGGER ” for 10% off your order at https://www.ridge.com/TRIGGER Robert Plomin is a geneticist and psychologist best known for his work in twin studies and behaviour genetics. He is the author of many books including, most recently, 'Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are.' Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/​​​ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/​​​ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media:  https://twitter.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod​​​ About TRIGGERnometry:  Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi Anna. Hi Anna. Hi Anna. Do you have a dilemma that makes you feel totally alone?

0:05.3

Well, the good news is it's not just you. I'm earning more money than him now and I don't think he likes it.

0:11.4

We've been sleeping together for the past few weeks, but she has a boyfriend.

0:14.9

I am a virgin, I am 25. And I'm just not sure if it's normal.

0:19.6

I'm Anna Richardson and this is it can't just be me when no topic is off limits.

0:24.9

Find it wherever you're listening to this or on it can't just be me.co.uk.

0:30.4

I think the DNA revolution hasn't quite sunk in. Like this isn't like a lot of medical things.

0:35.3

You know if you ever know if you hear of a discovery and they say in 10 years this is going to be big.

0:39.6

That means they have no idea if it's going to happen. If they say five years it means maybe it will happen.

0:44.6

But the point about this is it's happening now and this is really transformational.

0:55.4

Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Frances Foster.

0:59.3

I'm Constantine Kissen. And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating

1:05.5

people. It does not get any more fascinating than the brilliant guest we have for you today.

1:11.0

He is a geneticist and the author of Blueprint. How DNA makes us who we are. Professor Robert

1:16.2

Plum and welcome to Trigonometry. Thank you very much. I'm really pleased to be here.

1:19.1

Oh, we are so grateful to have you here. We can't wait for the conversation we're going to have.

1:23.3

Before we do though, tell everybody a little bit about your story through life. You've

1:27.3

you've written this great book. Of course you are one of the most cited people in your field in

1:32.6

the world. You've done incredible studies with twins. Tell us about your your life, your academic

1:38.9

career, the history of how you are here talking to us. Well, that can take us a few hours.

1:44.4

I'll try to give you give you the two minute version of it. You know, I've been doing research

1:48.5

in this area for 50 years. And when I started back in 1970, in psychology, you couldn't really talk

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