Summary and objectives: Nature vs. nurture or nature and nurture?

Explain key concepts like heritability, polygenic variation using terms like dominant, recessive, and homozygous.

• Identify the different types of gene-environment relationships.
• Discuss the implications of critical methods and findings like twin and adoption studies and genetic marker studies.
• Apply your knowledge to discover how knowing about biology might help us change the environment we create for our children?

References

• Locke, J. (1689). An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
• Watson, J. & Rayner, R. (1920). The Case of Little Albert.

Links

• Human Genome Project
• Mapping the Human Epigenome
• Good simple explanation of Recessive and Dominant traits and genes.
• Even better primer on genetics and genes from an agricutual standpoint.
• Nature versus Nurture revisited on Nova!
• Evolutionary Psychology