"A man's character is his fate." -Heraclitus
Ripley begins this chapter by defining the word "personality", "It means the innate and individual element in character." He describes that the genome is what make humans similar and different as seen in the same experiences of humans and their differences in personality. Several examples of these cases includes the experience of stress and the different personalities included humans being shy, anxious, risk-seeking, etc. With the explanation of the serotonin system, Ripley states that the human brain's serotonin system would respond to outside signals and there sensitivity to certain signals represents the differences in human personalities.
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