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Applied Behavior Analysis Embraces Genetics

We no longer believe in inherited capacities, talent, temperament, mental constitution, and characteristics. Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up ...
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From genes to animal behavior : social structures, personalities, communication by color / Miho Inoue-Murayama, Shoji Kawamura, Alexander Weiss, editors

Sexual and kin selection in animals: Female mate choice in rodents / Jörns Fickel and Alexandra Weyrich. Extra-pair paternity and sexual selection / Emmi Schlicht and Bart Kempenaers. Male ...

Same-sex sexual behavior observed in dozens of primate species, suggesting evolutionary origin

A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...
Psychology Today

Connecting Biology to Behavior: The Role of Genetics in ADHD

This post is the third in the series “Connecting Biology to Behavior: Inside the ADHD Brain.” Read the first post to learn about the role of dopamine in ADHD behaviors and the second post to learn ...
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Bones, genetics, and behavior of rhesus macaques : Macaca mulatta of Cayo Santiago and beyond / Qian Wang, editor

American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meeting (78th : 2009 : Chicago, Ill.) Papers presented at a symposium titled "Bones, Genetics, and Behavior : Physical Anthropology at the Caribbean ...
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Eric Turkheimer

Eric Turkheimer is the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He is a past president of the Behavior Genetics Association, which awarded him the Dobzhansky Prize ...