Origins : How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives

from EmreSevinc

My expectation from this book was simple: Help me learn the basics of the latest scientific research on how the soon-to-be-born babies are affected by their environment, by their parents behaviors and conditions. The book satisfied this criteria more or less while disappointing in many other aspe...

from atreic

I don't read a lot of non-fiction, but this was quite easy reading non-fiction. Good for feeling less alone about what it's like to be pregnant (the author's discussion of all the food judging etc etc is spot on) but I didn't really get much out of it I didn't know - eat fruit and veg, exercise i...

from paulsignorelli

Those of us fascinated by learning and how we are affected by the places where learning occurs find ourselves exploring a wonderfully unexpected learning space in Annie Murphy Paul’s "Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives": the womb. It is Paul's contention, thro...

from paulsignorelli

Those of us fascinated by learning and how we are affected by the places where learning occurs find ourselves exploring a wonderfully unexpected learning space in Annie Murphy Paul’s "Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives": the womb. It is Paul's contention, thro...