LONDON — A report released on October 2 by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics assesses the influence of genetics on patterns of behavior. It calls for intelligent use and regulation of genetics. The ...

It has long been known that environmental conditions can shape how traits are inherited, a phenomenon known as ...

An ongoing question of concern to researchers interested in dog behavior is just how much of it is coded in their DNA. According to the findings of a research team headed by Evan McLean of the ...

In his 2003 bestseller The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Steven Pinker asserts that "The three laws of behavioral genetics may be the most important discoveries in the history of ...

IBG's mission is to conduct interdisciplinary research and training that examines the nature and origins of individual differences in behavior. Current research at IBG uses large scale family, twin, ...

Irving Gottesman set out to challenge the prevailing thinking in the 1960s that faulty parenting was mostly to blame for mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. In studies of twins that brought him ...

"The first volume in the new Cambridge Handbooks in Behavioral Genetics, Behavioral Genetics of the Mouse provides baseline information on normal behaviors, essential in both the design of experiments ...

Front Cover -- BEHAVIORAL AND NEURAL GENETICS OF ZEBRAFISH -- BEHAVIORAL AND NEURAL GENETICS OF ZEBRAFISH -- Copyright -- In Memoriam -- Contents -- Contributors ...