Origins How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives

Name: Origins How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives
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ISBN: 9780743296632

ISBN-10: 074329663X

ISBN-13: 9780743296632

Edition: N/A

Authors: Annie Murphy Paul

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What makes us thewaywe are?Some say it's the genes we inherit at conception. Others are sure it's the environment we experience in childhood. But could it be that many of our individual characteristicsour health, our intelligence, our temperamentsare influenced by the conditions we encountered before birth?That's the claim of an exciting and provocative field known as fetal origins. Over the past twenty years, scientists have been developing a radically new understanding of our very earliest experiences and how they exert lasting effects on us from infancy well into adulthood. Their research offers a bold new view of pregnancy as a crucial staging ground for our health, ability, and…

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List price: $25.00
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 7/5/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Annie Murphy Paul is a magazine journalist and book author whose writing has appeared in The New York Times magazine, Slate, Discover and The Best American Science Writing, among other publications. She is also the author of The Cult of Personality, a cultural history and scientific cri-tique of personality testing. Read more at www.anniemurphypaul.comor follow her on Twitter @anniemurphypaul.



Prologue to the Paperback Edition


One Month


Two Months


Three Months


Four Months


Five Months


Six Months


Seven Months


Eight Months


Nine Months


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index