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The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated

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Author: Judith Rich Harris

Publisher: Free Press

Paperback:
ISBN 10: 1439101655
ISBN 13: 978-1439101650

Hardcover:
ISBN 10: 0684844095
ISBN 13: 978-0684844091

This groundbreaking book, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times notable pick, rattled the psychological establishment when it was first published in 1998 by claiming that parents have little impact on their children's development. In this tenth anniversary edition of The Nurture Assumption, Judith Harris has updated material throughout and provided a fresh introduction.

Combining insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, primatology, and evolutionary biology, she explains how and why the tendency of children to take cues from their peers works to their evolutionary advantage. This electrifying book explodes many of our unquestioned beliefs about children and parents and gives us a radically new view of childhood.