No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality

✍ Scribed by Harris, Judith Rich

• Book ID: 109810396
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 247 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780393329711

✦ Synopsis

A groundbreaking theory of personality.The author of the controversial book The Nurture Assumption tackles the biggest mystery in all of psychology: What makes people differ so much in personality and behavior? It can't just be "nature and nurture," because even identical twins who grow up together--same genes, same parents--have different personalities. And if psychologists can't explain why identical twins are different, they also can't explain why each of us differs from everyone else. Why no two people are alike.

Harris turns out to be well suited for the role of detective--it isn't easy to pull the wool over her eyes. She rounds up the usual suspects and shows why none of the currently popular explanations for human differences--birth order effects, for example, or interactions between genes and environment--can be the perpetrator she is looking for. None of these theories can solve the mystery of human individuality.

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