Innate

How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are

By: Kevin Mitchell

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Hardcover | 13 November 2018 | Edition Number 1

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A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think What makes you the way you are - and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual differences to their deepest level: in the wiring of our brains. Deftly guiding us through important new research, including his own groundbreaking work, he explains how variations in the way our brains develop before birth strongly influence our psychology and behavior throughout our lives, shaping our personality, intelligence, sexuality, and even the way we perceive the world. We all share a genetic program for making a human brain, Mitchell argues, and the program for making a brain like yours is specifically encoded in your DNA. But the way that program plays out is affected by random processes of development that manifest uniquely in each person, even identical twins. The key insight of Innate is that the combination of these developmental and genetic variations create innate differences in how our brains are wired'differences that impact all aspects of our psychology'and this insight promises to transform the way we see the interplay of nature and nurture. Innate also explores the genetic and neural underpinnings of disorders such as autism, schizophrenia, and epilepsy, and how our understanding of these conditions is being revolutionized. In addition, the book examines the social and ethical implications of these ideas and of new technologies that may soon offer the means to predict or manipulate human traits. Compelling and original, Innate will change the way you think about why and how we are who we are.

Industry Reviews

"A lucid, up-to-the-minute account of the human mind. . . . In considering the social, ethical, and philosophical implications of the accumulation of scientific discoveries, Mitchell changes the paradigm of what truly defines human nature."---Tiffany Jeung, Inverse
"One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2018"
"An engaging science book."---Anthony King, Irish Times
"One of Forbes' Must-Read Brain Books of 2018"
"A powerful antidote to genetic determinism."---Barbara Kiser, Nature
"A good read for anyone at any age interested in how we get to be who we are. . . . Let us get books like Innate into the hands and minds of students as early as possible so that informed public discussion of ethical, social, and political issues surrounding genetic knowledge keeps pace with the inexorable growth of that knowledge."---Richard Haier, Quillette
"Innate is the best guide to the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, and genetics that I've found in recent years. . . . If there's any question you have about how our brains make us who we are, chances are you'll find an enlightening answer in Innate."---Carl Zimmer, Publishers Weekly

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