Behavioural genetics is the interdisciplinary effort to establish causal links between genes and animal (including human) behavioural traits and neural mechanisms. Methods used include twin ...

“Media reports about behavioural genetics unintentionally induce unfounded beliefs, therefore going against the educational purpose of scientific reporting,” writes a researcher following his ...

Human behavioural genetics is an established research discipline of the genomic age, and applications for behavioural genetic information are most likely to emerge in areas such as criminal ...

Research into behavioural genetics is controversial not only because of concerns about its scientific validity, but also because of the ethical, legal, social and practical implications it has.

We want to be able to take genetics into account in the same way.” In a study in volume 7, No. 7 of the journal Nature Human Behaviour, Wedow, his co-corresponding author Andrea Ganna from the ...

Twin studies are used widely in behavioural genetics, because they remain one of the best methods we have to tease apart the effects of genes and environment. Both identical twins and non ...

Discoveries from the growing field of ‘behavioural genetics’ show us how nature and nurture conspire to influence our actions. But because of these same discoveries, the idea of the born ...

Robert Plomin, Gove’s behavioural genetics advisor and a prominent spokesman for this technique, puts it higher, at around 70 per cent. This is the figure cited by Cummings. However, the ...

Homosexual behavior is largely shaped by genetics and random environmental factors, according to findings from the world's largest study of twins. Homosexual behaviour is largely shaped by ...

In the 1960s, eugenics was reinvented as behaviour genetics, but soon went back off the rails. Aaron Panofsky’s Misbehaving Science explores what happened ARE some fields of scientific ...