Why Am I? The Science of Us 3 - When Genes Mix with the Wrong Environment (Episode Three)

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Why Am I? The Science of Us 3 - When Genes Mix with the Wrong Environment (Episode Three)

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The Dunedin Study is a long-running study of human health and development, based on roughly 1000 people born in Dunedin in 1972. In TV series Why Am I? , the far-reaching findings of the study are explored. This episode focuses on the interplay between nature and nurture, especially in regard to anti-social behaviour — as narrator Susie Ferguson says, "it's as if nature loads a gun, and nurture pulls the trigger." Much of the episode explores a rare mutation in the MAOA gene, a common denomin...

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2016

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