Genetics, environment, and behavior : implications for educational policy ; [workshop held at ... Rye, New York in October 1971 ... under the title "Genetic Endowment and Environment in the Determination of Behavior"

Genetics, Environment, and Behavior: Implications for Educational Policy is a collection of papers from the'Genetic Endowment and Environment in the Determination of Behavior'workshop in New York in October 1971. The book discusses the relationships between genetic characteristics and behavior as being significant in understanding human behavior and learning. The text also considers the different approaches made by geneticists and psychologists on this subject. Several papers review, in terms of both quantitative and qualitative analysis, the role that genetics and the environment play in determining behavior. One paper explains the possible role of genetic determination in behaviors as found in mice and men that show high probabilities of heritabilities. Another paper tackles biochemical genetics and explains the evolution of human behavior by addressing the enzyme variations in human brains and the role of language and culture. The book also cites gene-environment interactions and the variability that can be found in behavior with references to the works of Ginsburg (1967) and Vale and Vale (1969). One paper comments on the future of human behavior genetics, highlighting the distinction between what should happen and what most probably will happen. This text is suitable for sociologists, behavioral scientists, geneticists, educators, and students in psychology, psychiatry, and related branches of medicine. Content: Contributors , Page ii Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv List of Contributors , Pages xi-xii Foreword , Pages xiii-xv , SHERMAN ROSS Preface , Pages xvii-xviii , LEE EHRMAN Acknowledgments , Pages xix-xx , LEE EHRMAN, GILBERT S. OMENN Chapter 1 - Introductory Remarks , Pages 1-4 , ERNST W. CASPARI Chapter 2 - Quantitative Aspects of Genetics and Environment in the Determination of Behavior , Pages 5-16 , J.C. DeFRIES DISCUSSION , Pages 17-22 , JOHN L. FULLER COMMENT , Pages 23-25 , ARTHUR R. JENSEN COMMENT , Page 26 , PETER L. WORKMAN Chapter 3 - Qualitative Aspects of Genetics and Environment in the Determination of Behavior , Pages 27-47 , CLAUDINE PETIT DISCUSSION , Pages 48-53 , AUBREY MANNING Chapter 4 - Genetic Determination of Behavior (Animal) , Pages 55-67 , GERALD E. McCLEARN DISCUSSION , Pages 68-71 , SATYA PRAKASH COMMENT , Pages 72-73 , THEODOSIUS DOBZHANSKY Chapter 5 - Genetic Determination of Behavior (Mice and Men) , Pages 75-98 , P.A. PARSONS DISCUSSION , Pages 99-102 , LEONARD L. HESTON COMMENT , Page 103 , NEWTON E. MORTON Chapter 6 - Human Behavioral Adaptations: Speculations on Their Genesis , Pages 105-122 , I.I. GOTTESMAN, L.L. HESTON DISCUSSION , Pages 123-127 , WILLIAM S. POLLITZER Chapter 7 - Biochemical Genetics and the Evolution of Human Behavior , Pages 129-171 , GILBERT S. OMENN, ARNO G. MOTULSKY DISCUSSION , Pages 172-179 , V. ELVING ANDERSON Chapter 8 - Gene–Environment Interactions and the Variability of Behavior , Pages 181-208 , L. ERLENMEYER-KIMLING DISCUSSION , Pages 209-214 , W.R. THOMPSON COMMENT , Pages 215-216 , ERNST CASPARI COMMENT , Pages 217-218 , NEWTON E. MORTON Chapter 9 - The Meaning of the Cryptanthroparion , Pages 219-239 , E. TOBACH DISCUSSION , Pages 240-246 , ARTHUR R. JENSEN Chapter 10 - Human Behavioral Genetics , Pages 247-265 , N.E. MORTON DISCUSSION , Pages 266-271 , P.L. WORKMAN Chapter 11 - The Future of Human Behavior Genetics , Pages 273-289 , S.G. VANDENBERG DISCUSSION , Pages 290-296 , BENSON E. GINSBURG Chapter 12 - Comments on School Effects, Gene—Environment Covariance, and the Heritability of Intelligence , Pages 297-306 , BRUCE K. ECKLAND Epilogue , Pages 307-310 , GILBERT S. OMENN, ERNST CASPARI, LEE EHRMAN Author Index , Pages 311-319 Subject Index , Pages 320-324