{"podcast":{"title":"Keep Talking","slug":"keep-talking-1331245","podcast_index_feed_id":1331245,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/20210520_005222_a8e19a4cd6d9a7bc6e33dc39aa33e2b3.jpg","author":"Dan Riley","episode_count":155,"summary":"\"Keep Talking\" exists to have conversations that might help to make a better society and a better culture. I believe that each guest has important information and stories to make public. And it's something that I want to share.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T02:20:25.098457+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 143: Robert Plomin - The Power of Genes in Human Nature","slug":"episode-143-robert-plomin-the-power-of-genes-in-human-nature","published_at":"2025-02-21T10:00:10+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-143-robert-plomin-the-power-of-genes-in-human-nature","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans/1905699","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/14586/1905699/humans/2025_02_19_18_32_19_e551ac6c-f8a5-4c3b-af3b-fe8fb02e0112.mp3","summary":"Robert Plomin is a British-American scientist, a psychologist and behavioral geneticist, and the author of the bestselling book, Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are . ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (01:00) The history of nature vs nurture debate (15:40) \"All parents are nurture-ists - until their second child.\" (18:54) Identical twin studies (39:16) Lessons from the film \"Three Identical Strangers\" (41:20) How much influence do parents have on their kids? (58:40) Genes and psychology (01:10:55) A better model for psychology (01:16:35) How should society look, based on the truth and power of genes? (01:27:03) Nucleus genomics in NYC for polygenic information","meta_description":"Robert Plomin is a British-American scientist, a psychologist and behavioral geneticist, and the author of the bestselling book, Blueprint: How DNA Makes…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5409,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/keep-talking-1331245/episodes/episode-143-robert-plomin-the-power-of-genes-in-human-nature/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-143-robert-plomin-the-power-of-genes-in-human-nature.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}