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Why Am I?
Episode 2What is it that makes kids run off the rails, and what can be done about it? Why do some teens become career criminals, while others come right? -
Why Am I?
Episode 4This episode looks at the effects of modern life and ageing: how excessive cleanliness affects asthma and allergies, and how poverty gets under the skin to cause lifelong damage. -
Why Am I?
Episode 3The Dunedin Study has identified a fundamental developmental mechanism that completely rewrites the Nature versus Nurture argument. It's a genetic switch which is thrown by life events. -
Why Am I?
Episode 1What determines our personality, health, wealth and happiness? In 1972 the Otago University Medical School embarked on the ultimate nature/nurture test, to study 1037 babies for their entire lives.
