The extensive literature on heredity and behavior contains many important contributions to
our understanding of the nature of personality and. individuality. However, as Hall (6) and …

This chapter looks broadly at the issues of the interface between genetics and personality.
Several of the topics discussed in the chapter are described in this abstract. When a …

In numerous cases authors arrive at different conclusions in doing similar experiments. The
difference can only be explained by the assumption of strain differences in the animals. The …

In 1945 the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory began an extensive program of
research designed to test the relationship between heredity and social behavior, particularly …

The fields of animal and human behavior-genetics are charac-terized by what seem to be
arbitrary interests in a variety of pheno-types. In human work the exceptions that come to …

There is a rich selection of topics from genetics covering many of the basic con-cepts as well
as introducing the reader to population genetics and physiological genetics. The …

IN TRYING TO SUMMARIZE a lot of information about hereditary factors in human
psychological differences, one is overwhelmed by the mass of details that demand some …

INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITY are conspicuous in men, dogs, horses and
even in such species as white mice or chicken. Geneticists generally accept the idea that …

It has been assumed by many that since identical twins, ie, individuals produced from the
same original cell, have the same inheritance that any differences in fundamental behavior …