The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of 70,000 Ordinary Lives

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 gene...