Acta Psychologica Sinica


Vol. 40 No. 10 , Pages 1042 - 1050 , 2008

Milestones in the History of Behavioral Genetics: Participant Observer

Irving I. GOTTESMAN

Abstract

The history of Behavioral Genetics and (now) genomics, viewed in cross-section, is a kaleidoscopic pattern derived from the individual histories of the psychology of individual differences, plant, animal, and human genetics, biology, evolution, anthropology, demography, biometry, sociology, jurisprudence, and some of their neighboring disciplines. There will be positive correlations between any two renditions of the historian’s task, but the idiosyncratic experiences of any two with the listed contributors to the pattern guarantees that the correlations may be modest, without invalidating either one.

Keywords: history of behavior genetics; interdisciplinary science; individual contributions

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