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Meet Your Genes!
What You Inherited, What You Became, and How to Finally Tell the DifferenceBy Jasmin Sarif
Length1h 25m
About this audiobook
Your grandmother's silence. Your father's temper. The exact way you stand in a doorway when you're bracing for bad news...
How much of it did you actually inherit, and how much did you just watch closely enough, for long enough, to become? What if the thing you always blamed on your DNA was never in your DNA at all?
Meet Your Genes! is the second volume in the Think You Know Yourself? series, written by a physician and psychiatrist who has spent a career watching the line between body and identity disappear. Jasmin Sarif separates two mechanisms people constantly confuse: the traits written directly into your genetic code, and the traits you absorbed simply by watching someone else closely enough, for long enough, that imitation started to feel like inheritance.
Chapter by chapter, this book covers the real science of epigenetics — how stress, sleep, and sustained behavior change which genes get expressed, and how that process may continue across your entire life, not just your childhood. It covers what current research does and doesn't support about generational trauma, what identical twin studies actually reveal about personality, and which traits — temperament, addiction risk, even taste — carry a genuine, well-documented genetic signal.
Meet Your Genes! is not a book about blame, and it isn't a book about excuses. It's a field guide to a harder, more useful question:
Which parts of you were handed to you before you had a say, and which parts were simply taught?
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, Psychology, Self-Help
Length1 hr 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction 5
2Chapter One: What You Actually Inherited 11
3Chapter Two: Behaviors That Aren’t Inherited — They’re Copied 17
4Chapter Three: How Experience Turns Genes On and Off 24
5Chapter Four: What If You Could Change the Cycle? 30
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6Chapter Five: What Your Grandmother Lived, Sitting in Your Body 37
7Chapter Six: Identical Twins and the Lie That Everything Is Genetic 43
8Chapter Seven: What’s Actually Inherited — Temperament, Addiction, Taste 49
9Chapter Eight: The Line Between “This Is Me” and “This Is What I Was Handed” 55
10Chapter Nine: The Choices You Actually Have 61
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