Several decades of research involving nonhuman animals have led many scientists to a
developmental systems explanation of the origins of brain and behavior. Developmentalists …

Gottlieb (1991) suggests that behavior geneticists and developmental psychologists have
underestimated the importance of environmental regulation of species-typical behavior …

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 …

Human behavioral genetics has contributed greatly to our understanding of human
behavioral development. Twin, family, and adoption studies have shown that genetic effects …

What will it take to make behavioral genetics truly developmental? In my opinion, the purely
statistical population view will have to be abandoned in favor of the study of individuals: An …

The question of whether the features that make us unique as individuals are largely
determined by our genetic heritage or shaped by our personal experiences has been …

Genes and environment are both essential and interdependent determinants of behavioral
responses. Behavioral genetics focuses on the role of genes on behavior. In this article, we …

What does it mean to find a gene or set of genes that are associated with ADHD,
schizophrenia, or autism? Could we eradicate such diseases from our species through gene …

Reviews the book, Genes and Behavior: Nature-Nurture Interplay Explained by Michael
Rutter (2006). Author chooses to start his tour, with the provocative question'Why is the topic …

The central problem in the history of animal behavior has been the inability to perceive the
phenotype as the result of an interaction between genome and environment, despite the …