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Jay JosephPublication Details
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LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) RC455.4.G4 J67 2004 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Increasingly, we are told that research has confirmed the importance of genetic factors influencing psychiatric disorders, personality, intelligence, sexual orientation, criminality, and so on. His book shows that, far from establishing the importance of genes, family, twin and adoption research has been plagued by researcher bias, unsound methodology, and a reliance on unsupported theoretical assumptions. The reared-apart twin studies performed by researchers at the University of Minnesota have been the subject of much attention, including stories of individual pairs of “reared-apart” identical twins who, it is claimed, displayed remarkable similarities upon being reunited. Additional chapters look into other areas of current interest in genetics, such as IQ, the heritability concept, and molecular genetic research. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Twin research: misunderstanding twins, from Galton to the 21st century
- The twin method: an environmentally confounded research technique
- Genetic studies of twins reared apart: a critical review
- The heritability concept: a measure of inheritance or inherently misleading?
- The genetics of schizophrenia I: an overview
- The genetics of schizophrenia II: adoption studies
- Is crime in the genes? a critical review of twin and adoption studies of criminal and antisocial behavior
- Genetics and IQ
- Molecular genetic research in psychiatry and psychology: an exercise in futility?
- Where do we go from here?
ISBN
- 0875863434
- 0875863442
- 0875863450
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