PSY 453 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Behavioural Genetics, Twin Study, Human Genome Project
30 Jul 2020
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Behavioral genetics: what is it and what does it study: behavioral genetics, also called behavioral genetics, is a scientific discipline that is responsible for studying the influence of genetic makeup on behavior and the interaction. The field of this discipline is advancing rapidly, since we have better and better technological means to observe and study in depth the genes that intervene in each behavior. Historical background: behavioral genetics, or at least the study of the relationship between behavior and genetics, has been the object of interest of numerous researchers since the end of the 19th century. It was the english polymath, francis galton (cousin of charles darwin ), the pioneer in research with twins and in the use of many of the statistical methods of analysis that are currently used. This scientist carried out the first systematic studies with families, demonstrating how certain behavioral traits could be transmitted and inherited from parents to children.
