{"id":73046,"date":"2012-08-03T08:02:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T16:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17640"},"modified":"2012-08-03T08:02:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T16:02:54","slug":"the-poverty-of-inheritance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/03\/the-poverty-of-inheritance\/","title":{"rendered":"The poverty of inheritance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/08\/qual.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17641\" title=\"qual\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/08\/qual.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/08\/subject.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17642\" title=\"subject\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/08\/subject.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a>Virginia Hughes has an important post up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lastwordonnothing.com\/2012\/08\/02\/what-americans-dont-get-about-the-brains-critical-period\/\">The Last Word on Nothing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lastwordonnothing.com\/2012\/08\/02\/what-americans-dont-get-about-the-brains-critical-period\/\">What Americans Don\u2019t Get About the Brain\u2019s Critical Period<\/a>. In it she reiterates just how stupid the &#8220;Baby Einstein&#8221; culture is. The post is important to me specifically because <strong>I have a baby who I would like nudge in the direction of Einstein, but not by spending money on toys which exist mostly to salve the vanity and conscience of adults around her.<\/strong> With all that said, Hughes emphasizes that the <strong>key is to focus on children at the other end of the environment spectrum from my awesome one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So I was prompted by her post to check out the links, as I&#8217;ve not explored this literature in a while. First, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2012\/07\/17\/1200041109.long\">Variation in neural development as a result of exposure to institutionalization early in childhood<\/a> compares Romanian orphans who were kept in that nation&#8217;s notoriously atrocious orphanages and those who were fostered. The authors assert that the placements of the latter were randomized, and the neurological differences were significant. I doubt this is that surprising &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Hughes has an important post up at The Last Word on Nothing, What Americans Don\u2019t Get About the Brain\u2019s Critical Period. In it she reiterates just how stupid the &#8220;Baby Einstein&#8221; culture is. The post is important to me specific&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73046"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73161,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73046\/revisions\/73161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}