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Everyone Assumes DNA Shapes Your Personality. It Turns Out Something Else Is Doing Most of The Work


One of the biggest existential questions an individual can ask is "What makes me, me?" Identical twins have near-identical genetics, yet can still develop quite different personalities – about as perfect a demonstration as nature could offer that DNA isn't destiny.

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