Bøker av Robert Plomin

G is for Genes summariezes the latest research and explores, in a scientific and non-political way, what genetic research means for schools, and for the choices parents have to make about their children's education.

Quantitative genetics offers a general theory of the development of individual differences. The largest and longest longitudinal adoption study is the Colorado Adoption Project, which has generated much of the rich data on the progress from infancy to early childhood on which the authors draw throughout this 1988 book.

Despite the importance of learning abilities and disabilities in education and child development, little is known about their genetic and environmental origins in the early school years.