About the time that I was completing my doctoral training (in 1971), reactions to Jensen's
[1969] paper in the Harvard Educational Review about the heritability of intelligence were …

Disputes over the scientific validity of behavioral genetics are as old as the field itself. Often
these disputes have been politicized, with less-than-rational motivations attributed by …

This book is based on two simple ideas. The first is that genes are involved in change as
well as continuity in development. The second is that the best way to study effects of …

Traditional, quantitative behavioral geneticists and developmental psychobiologists such as
Gilbert Gottlieb have long debated what it would take to create a truly developmental …

Almost everyone who writes about human beings, having described their be haviour, also
offers to explain it. Biographers and historians, anthropologists and sociologists account for …

Hermann (1908) said of psychology that it had a long past, but only a short history. The
same may be said of behavior genetics. One cannot specify an exact date at which behavior …

Progress in understanding genetic influences on health and development continues to be
swift and substantial, both resolving and raising core questions for clinical and …

Argues that in his article regarding the validity of behavioral genetics (BG) G. Gottlieb's (see
record 1996-10515-001) comments are not based on a fundamental difference between …

The Handbook of Developmental Science, Behavior, and Genetics brings together the
cutting-edge theory, research and methodology that contribute to our current scientific …

Responds to author's commentaries on the book" Development, Genetics and Psychology,"
by Robert Plomin. Importance of studying individual differences in development, the …