How Your DNA Made You Who You Are - Robert Plomin
TRIGGERnometry
Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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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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