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Behaving : what's genetic, what's not, and why should we care? / Kenneth F. Schaffner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schaffner, Kenneth F., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Behavior genetics.
- Nature and nurture.
- Choice (Psychology).
- Genetics, Behavioral.
- Gene-Environment Interaction.
- Personal Autonomy.
- Choice Behavior.
- Medical Subjects:
- Genetics, Behavioral.
- Gene-Environment Interaction.
- Personal Autonomy.
- Choice Behavior.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- What's genetic, what's not, and why should we care?
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book analyses the nature-nurture controversy and recent history and methodology of behavioral and psychiatric genetics. It discusses genetic reductionism, determinism, heritability, ""free will,"" and quantitative and molecular genetics. New genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that produced a ""paradigm shift"" in the subject are reviewed, as are genetics of personality and schizophrenia.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-063160-0
- 0-19-046410-0
- 0-19-972150-5
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