Details. Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781780220901. Publisher: W&N (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Age Range: Adult. Overview. Professor Tim Spector's "Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes" is a groundbreaking work of popular science that challenges what readers thought they knew about heredity. Drawing on decades of research into twins, epigenetics and the microbiome, Spector reveals that our genes are far less fixed than once believed. This paperback is ideal for science-curious adults, students of biology and medicine, and anyone wanting to understand how lifestyle and environment can reshape who we become, physically and behaviourally, across a lifetime.. About the Book. As one of the world's leading experts on twin studies, Tim Spector spent years comparing identical twins who share exactly the same DNA yet often lead startlingly different lives, developing different diseases, personalities and even political views. In "Identically Different", he uses this research as a launchpad into the fast-moving science of epigenetics: the study of how genes are switched on and off by diet, stress, chemicals and early life experience. Rather than treating the…

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