我最近读了 Robert Plomin 写的《Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are》，关于先天与后天（nature vs nurture）的争论似乎在多大程度上被基因发现所取代，这本书真是让人大开眼界。根据书里的说法，基因……
I recently read the book "Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are" by Robert Plomin and it it was quite the eye opener as to how much the nature vs nurture debate seems to have been overtaken by genetic findings. According to the book genetics…
我觉得它应该改名叫《试图培养更聪明成年人背后的可疑科学》。我最近读了 Robert Plomin 的《Blueprint》。这里有个挺不错的总结：https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/24/blueprint-by-r... Plomin 在《Blueprint》里提出了相当有力的论据，证明这几乎全取决于基因……
I think it should be renamed "The Dubious Science Behind Trying To Make Smarter Adults" I recently read Blueprint by Robert Plomin. Here is a pretty good summary: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/24/blueprint-by-r... Plomin makes a pretty solid case in Blueprint that it's pretty much down to genetics…
Relevant to the topic of personality and choice in the article. Robert Plomin in his book Blueprint cites the pretty astonishing finding that the weight of adopted children is pretty much not at all correlated to the weight of the adopted parents, whereas the weight of the birth parents is a strong…
…parents never turned the on the TV where he saw tennis and became obsessed with it that he would never have become a tennis champion? His sister is a nurse too, not a tennis champion. Robert Plomin, in Blueprint, makes the case that what our parents and schools do for us pretty much comes out in the wash as we make our way into adulthood and that throughout our lives our individual choices shape our environment…
现代行为遗传学研究（比如 Robert Plomin 在《Blueprint》中所描述的）似乎让某些人感到很不适。我想这完全算得上是“异端邪说”（heresy），因为它挑战了许多人们普遍持有的观念。
Modern behavioral genetic research as described, for example, in Robert Plomin's "Blueprint", seems to make some people uncomfortable. I suppose it could qualify as "heresy" as it challenges a number of widely held beliefs.
It's a review of Plomin's book, Blueprint, including putting it into context with the history of similar works. "Like much of that literature, Blueprint plays fast and loose with the concept of heritability. Sometimes Plomin treats it (correctly)…
我最近读了 Robert Plomin 写的《Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are》，关于先天与后天（nature vs nurture）的争论似乎在多大程度上被基因发现所取代，这本书真是让人大开眼界。根据书里的说法，基因……
I recently read the book "Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are" by Robert Plomin and it it was quite the eye opener as to how much the nature vs nurture debate seems to have been overtaken by genetic findings. According to the book genetics…
我觉得它应该改名叫《试图培养更聪明成年人背后的可疑科学》。我最近读了 Robert Plomin 的《Blueprint》。这里有个挺不错的总结：https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/24/blueprint-by-r... Plomin 在《Blueprint》里提出了相当有力的论据，证明这几乎全取决于基因……
I think it should be renamed "The Dubious Science Behind Trying To Make Smarter Adults" I recently read Blueprint by Robert Plomin. Here is a pretty good summary: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/24/blueprint-by-r... Plomin makes a pretty solid case in Blueprint that it's pretty much down to genetics…
这跟文章里关于性格和选择的话题相关。Robert Plomin 在他的《Blueprint》一书中引用了一个相当惊人的发现：被领养儿童的体重跟养父母的体重几乎完全没有相关性，而亲生父母的体重则是一个强……
Relevant to the topic of personality and choice in the article. Robert Plomin in his book Blueprint cites the pretty astonishing finding that the weight of adopted children is pretty much not at all correlated to the weight of the adopted parents, whereas the weight of the birth parents is a strong…
……父母要是从没打开过电视让他看到网球并沉迷其中，他就永远成不了网球冠军了吗？他的妹妹也是个护士，而不是网球冠军。Robert Plomin 在《Blueprint》中论证过，父母和学校为我们所做的一切，当我们步入成年后基本上都会被冲淡抵消，而在我们一生中，是个人的选择塑造了我们的环境……
…parents never turned the on the TV where he saw tennis and became obsessed with it that he would never have become a tennis champion? His sister is a nurse too, not a tennis champion. Robert Plomin, in Blueprint, makes the case that what our parents and schools do for us pretty much comes out in the wash as we make our way into adulthood and that throughout our lives our individual choices shape our environment…
现代行为遗传学研究（比如 Robert Plomin 在《Blueprint》中所描述的）似乎让某些人感到很不适。我想这完全算得上是“异端邪说”（heresy），因为它挑战了许多人们普遍持有的观念。
Modern behavioral genetic research as described, for example, in Robert Plomin's "Blueprint", seems to make some people uncomfortable. I suppose it could qualify as "heresy" as it challenges a number of widely held beliefs.
这是对 Plomin 的书《Blueprint》的一篇书评，包括将其置于同类作品的历史背景下进行探讨。“就像那类文献中的大部分一样，《Blueprint》在可遗传性（heritability）这个概念上玩得很随意、不怎么严谨。有时 Plomin 会（正确地）把它看作……”
It's a review of Plomin's book, Blueprint, including putting it into context with the history of similar works. "Like much of that literature, Blueprint plays fast and loose with the concept of heritability. Sometimes Plomin treats it (correctly)…