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The Life Project
- Author
- Helen Pearson
- Narrator
- Lucy Archer-Woodcock
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 25 November 2025
- Run Time
- 9 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A fascinating account of a scientific project that tracked five generations of children—the longest-ever-running study of human development. The lives of 70,000 people reveal the importance of our beginnings on the greater trajectory of our lives.
In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week as part of a birth cohort study. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass five generations of children. Today, they are some of the best-studied people on the planet, and the simple act of observing human life has changed the way we are born, schooled, parented, and die.
This is the tale of these studies and the remarkable discoveries that have come from them. Touching people across the globe, they are one of the world's best-kept secrets.
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Details
- Author
- Helen Pearson
- Narrator
- Lucy Archer-Woodcock
- Duration
- 9 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 November 2025
- ISBN
- 9798331982348
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Social and cultural anthropology, Social and cultural history, Social theory
Synopsis
A fascinating account of a scientific project that tracked five generations of children—the longest-ever-running study of human development. The lives of 70,000 people reveal the importance of our beginnings on the greater trajectory of our lives.In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week as part of a birth cohort study. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass five generations of children. Today, they are some of the best-studied people on the planet, and the simple act of observing human life has changed the way we are born, schooled, parented, and die. This is the tale of these studies and the remarkable discoveries that have come from them. Touching people across the globe, they are one of the world's best-kept secrets.
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