Why people are different. Scientific view of human individuality

Available and witty tells why all people - even twins are completely different.
collects under one cover the latest discoveries of genetics, medicine, neurobiology and psychology.
makes it possible to evaluate how our features, addictions and even memories depend on accidents.
All people are different from each other. This fact seems so obvious that we rarely think about why this is, in fact, so. Why someone is an owl, and someone is a lark, someone loves sweets, and someone is bitter, one likes men, the other-women, and the third is closely in the usual gender categories. Neurobiologist David Linden appreciated the degree of human diversity, studying profiles on the dating site. There, as it turned out, people especially willingly describe their characteristics - from hair color to food and sexual preferences, from household habits to allergies. “Why are people different” is an attempt to describe in one book all the facets of our uniqueness. Linden talks about the genetic variability and influence of the environment, from womb to adulthood, about training and individual experience, about immunity and chemical receptors, because of which there are really no comrades for taste and color. And although you have never doubted your own uniqueness, you will still be fascinated by learning how difficult and unpredictable the path that you had to go for it was