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

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 28, 2010

Journalist Annie Murphy Paul discusses the new field of fetal origins—which looks into how the conditions we encountered before birth influence our health, intelligence, and temperament. In Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives, she interviews experts from around the world and explores the history of ideas and the latest scientific discoveries.

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