Interaction: Genes

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Interaction Genes Environment Evolution
provides Genes Sex mixing of Genes Unique
Genetic Blueprint Prenatal Influences unless
MZ twins Predispositions Experience Uni
que Individual
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Evolution Francis Galton (1822 - 1911) John
Stuart Mill (1806 - 1874) John Locke - tabula
rasa Nativism versus Empiricism Nature
versus Nurture Heredity versus Environment
Genes versus Learning How does environment
? How do genes ?
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Evolution Darwin The Origin of Species
(1859) 1. Natural Selection 2. Evolutionary
Adaptation Genetic Variability 1. Genetic
reshuffling - sex 2. Mutations Environmental
Adaptations Behavioral Adaptations
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W..Tick?
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IQ studies r correlation coefficient Identical
twins, reared apart r 0.70 Identical twins,
reared together 0.90 Fraternals (together)
0.60 Fraternals (apart)
0.30 Assume environments are random, as in
general population (statistical assumption). If
so Identicals reared apart r 0.40
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