ABSTRACT
Everyone is different. Some differences are immediately obvious – man or woman, old or young, not to mention the vast range of physical differences reflecting ethnicity, family heritage and plain chance – but most significant are those differences stemming from personality, from different emotional sensitivity and from beliefs, values and attitudes. Some of these differences are primarily genetic, inherited from our parents; others are the results of our upbringing, our family, social, educational and economic background. Increasingly, it is becoming clear that neither operates independently of the other – we are the product of the interaction between our genes and upbringing.
