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Interaction: Genes & Environment
Evolution provides Genes
Sex = mixing of Genes
Unique Genetic Blueprint
Prenatal Influences
unless: MZ twins
Predispositions
Experience
Unique Individual
Evolution
Francis Galton (1822 - 1911)
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1874)
John Locke - tabula rasa
Nativism
Nature
Heredity
Genes
versus
versus
versus
versus
How does environment …?
How do genes … ?
Empiricism
Nurture
Environment
Learning
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 Learning
Culture
Video: W..Tick?
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 :
Video: Symposium
r = 0.40
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