Linares, Marie and Shuman, Lorena (2012) Branches and key components of genetics. Academic Studio, Delhi, India. ISBN 9788132306856
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Abstract
Behavioural genetics is the field of study that examines the role of genetics in animal (including human) behaviour. Often associated with the "nature versus nurture" debate, behavioural genetics is highly interdisciplinary, involving contributions from biology, genetics, ethology, psychology, and statistics. Behavioural geneticists study the inheritance of behavioural traits. In humans this often use the twin study or adoption study. In animal studies, breeding, transgenesis, and gene knockout techniques are common; psychiatric genetics is a closely related field. Sir Francis Galton, a nineteenth-century intellectual, is recognized as one of the first behavioural geneticists. Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, studied the heritability of human ability, focusing on mental characteristics as well as eminence among close relatives in the English upper-class. In 1869, Galton published his results in Hereditary Genius. In his work, Galton "introduced multivariate analysis and paved the way towards modern Bayesian statistics" that are used throughout the sciences launching what has been dubbed the "Statistical Enlightenment" Behaviour genetics, per-se, gained recognition as a research discipline with the publication in 1960 of the textbook Behavior Genetics by J.L. Fuller and W.R. Thompson.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH426 Genetics |
| Divisions: | Electronic Books |
| Depositing User: | Esam @ Hisham Muhammad |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jan 2024 06:10 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jan 2024 06:10 |
| URI: | http://odlsystem2.utm.my/id/eprint/4306 |
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