robert plomin, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you have just written an extraordinary book.are going to talk about it at length. it's called bluprint but the subtitle is, how dna makes us who we are. now, that is a very grand statement. do you mean it as a sort of engaging headline or do you actually mena it do you mean it as a sort of engaging headline or do you actually mean as a straightforward fact? well, it needs another clause or two to make it a straightforward fact. so guilty as charged, i rhink, in terms of being eye—catching. because that is...evolutionary psychology studies what makes us human and they are focused on the 99% of the dna that we all share. i am talking about the 1% of dna that makes us different so it really should say, "how dna makes us who we are as individuals". why are we different? why are some of us more vulnerable to mental illness and why are some of us more sociable or better in terms of spatial ability? it's those differences that interest me. so your contention is that if we dig down deep into the psychological traits that we all have, th