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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: The Genetics of Personality
Message-ID: <3713@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Aug-87 22:29:32 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 16 22:29:32 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Aug-87 05:12:06 EDT
Organization: NC State Univ.
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Keywords: heritibility, behavior, environment

"What makes family members alike?  Genetic similarity seems to be a
far better predictor than environmental factors, according to
adoption studies and research on twins."  That's the heading on
a Research News article in the 7 Aug. 1987 issue of SCIENCE (pages
598-601.)  A survey is presented of recent evidence which indicates
that there is a substantial amount of genetic control of personality
traits (in humans.)  An appropriate Chas. Addams cartoon is
included.

This article is reasonably easy reading - although non-specialists
may have to skip relatively small portions.  (This type of research
could easily re-open the major controversies which centered on the
inheritance of IQ.)

--henry schaffer  n c state univ