The politics of heredity essays on eugenics, biomedicine, and the nature-nurture debate by Paul, Diane B., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Eugenics and the left -- The nine lives of discredited data -- The Rockefeller Foundation and the origins of behavior genetics -- A debate that refuses to die -- Eugenic anxieties, social realities, and political choices -- Did eugenics rest on an elementary mistake? …”

Social development by Schaffer, H. Rudolph

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Genetics 101 by Windelspecht, Michael, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Population genetics -- DNA fingerprinting -- Cancer genetics -- Behavioral genetics -- Quantitative genetics -- Genetics of complex diseases…”


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How genes influence behavior by Flint, Jonathan, Greenspan, Ralph J., Kendler, Kenneth S., 1950-

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The Malleability of children

Table of Contents: “…The Concept Of Plasticity In Development -- 2. Behavioral Genetics And Intervention -- 3. Developmental Function, Individual Differences And The Plasticity Of Intelligence -- 4. …”


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Lesbian, gay, and bisexual identities in families : psychological perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Behavioral genetics, sexual orientation, and the family -- J. …”


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Successful aging : perspectives from the behavioral sciences

Table of Contents: “…Vaillant -- Developmental behavioral genetics and successful aging / Nancy L. Pedersen and Jennifer R. …”


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Sibling relationships : their causes and consequences

Table of Contents: “…Cicirelli -- Siblings, behavioral genetics, and competence / Robert Plomin, Beth Manke, and Alison Pike -- Adult sibling relationships : racial and ethnic comparisons / Agnes Riedmann and Lynn White -- Personality and sibling relationships / Wyndol Furman and Richard P. …”


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Why you are who you are : investigations into human personality by Leary, Mark R.

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Essentials of genetics

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Biology of adolescent behavior and development

Table of Contents: “…Lerner, Jonathan Tubman -- Behavioral genetics, adolescent deviance, and "d" : contributions and issues / David C. …”


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Temperament as a regulator of behavior : after fifty years of research by Strelau, Jan

Table of Contents: “…Experiments on the diagnosis of the basic properties of the nervous system as Pavlov understood them: The forerunners of the regulative theory of temperament -- Diagnosis of the basic properties of the nervous system by means of questionnaires -- An outline of the regulative theory of temperament and the first stage of research on the functional role of temperament -- The regulative theory of temperament: a theoretical framework for temperament research at the turn of the twenty-first century -- The structure of temperament and a psychometric instrument with which to measure it -- Temperament as a moderator of stressful phenomena -- Temperament and extreme stress -- Research based on the behavior genetic paradigm conducted within the framework of the regulative theory of temperament.…”


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The biological foundations of organizational behavior

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Conceptual breakthroughs in ethology and animal behavior by Breed, Michael D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 50,000 years before present : the dawn of human evolution -- 12,000 years before present : domestication -- 1623 : social behavior -- 1700s : classifying life -- 1729 : biological clocks -- 1800s : birds in their natural setting -- 1800s : the great explorers -- 1859 : Darwin and behavior -- 1859 : Darwin and social insects -- 1882 : George Romanes and the birth of comparative psychology -- 1894 : Morgan's canon -- 1914 : sensory physiology and behavior -- 1938 : Skinner and learning -- 1940 : orientation -- 1941 : bat echolocation -- 1947 : the evolution of clutch size -- 1948 : cognitive maps -- 1948 : hormones and behavior -- 1948 : information theory -- 1953 : the chasm between ethology and comparative psychology -- 1954 : life history phenomena -- 1954 : zeitgebers (time-givers) for biological clocks -- 1956 : the Coolidge effect -- 1957 : psychophysical laws -- 1960 : motivation and drive -- 1963 : the four questions -- 1964 : dopamine and reward reinforcement -- 1964 : inclusive fitness and the evolution of altruism -- 1965 : Harry Harlow and social isolation in monkeys -- 1967 : island biogeography -- 1968 : tool use -- 1969 : territoriality and habitat choice -- 1970 : sperm competition -- 1971 : behavioral genetics -- 1971 : reciprocal altruism -- 1971 : selfish herds -- 1973 : episodic memory -- 1973 : game theory -- 1973 : the many eyes hypothesis -- 1973 : the Red Queen -- 1973 : animal conflict -- 1974 : Caenorhabditis elegans behavioral genetics -- 1974 : standardizing behavioral observation methods -- 1974 : parent-offspring conflict -- 1975 : group selection -- 1975 : sociobiology -- 1975 : the handicap principle -- 1976 : marginal value theorem -- 1977 : self-medication -- 1977 : the evolution of mating systems -- 1978 : animal models for depression -- 1978 : theory of mind -- 1980 : dispersal -- 1980 : semantic communication -- 1980 : the risk paradigm -- 1981 : prisoner's dilemma -- 1981 : producers and scroungers -- 1982 : the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis -- 1982 : the hippocampus and navigation -- 1983 : reproductive skew -- 1985 : an animal model for anxiety -- 1988 : brood parasitism -- 1990 : fear -- 1990 : the challenge hypothesis -- 1991 : pain in animals -- 1991 : receiver psychology -- 1992 : working memory -- 1994 : ecosystem engineers -- 1996 : conservation behavior -- 1996 : the molecular basis of learning -- 1998 : self-organization of social systems -- 1998 : gaze following -- 1999 : multimodal communication -- 2000 : emotion and the brain -- 2000 : social amoebas and their genomes -- 2002 : social networks -- 2004 : behavioral syndromes -- personality in animals -- 2004 : maternal epigenetics -- 2004 : public and private information -- 2014 : keystone individuals.…”


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Genetics : analysis of genes and genomes by Hartl, Daniel L.

Table of Contents: “…Genes, genomes, and genetic analysis -- DNA structure and genetic variation -- Transmission genetics : the principle of segregation -- Chromosomes and sex-chromosome inheritance -- Genetic linkage and chromosome mapping -- Molecular biology of DNA replication and recombination -- Molecular organization of chromosomes -- Human karyotypes and chromosome behavior -- Genetics of bacteria and their viruses -- Molecular biology of gene expression -- Molecular mechanisms of gene regulation -- Genomics, proteomics, and transgenics -- Genetic control of development -- Molecular mechanisms of mutation and DNA repair -- Molecular genetics of the cell cycle and cancer -- Mitochondrial DNA and extranuclear inheritance -- Molecular evolution and population genetics -- The genetic basis of complex traits -- Human evolutionary genetics.…”


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DNA and the criminal justice system : the technology of justice

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- The coming storm: crime and behavioral genetics -- DNA and human-behavior genetics: implications for the criminal justice system / Garland Allen -- Selective arrests, an ever-expanding DNA forensic database, and the specter of an early-twenty-first-century equivalent of phrenology / Troy Duster -- Defining the discourse -- DNA's identity crisis / Sheila Jasanoff -- DNA and the criminal justice system: consensus and debate / David Lazer and Michelle N. …”


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Arguments and analysis in bioethics

Table of Contents: “…Genetic fallacy and some other concerns in behavioral genetics / Niall W.R. Scott -- 11. Eugenics: enhancing individuals or populations? …”


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100 most important science ideas : key concepts from genetics, physics and mathematics by Henderson, Mark, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Genetics (The theory of evolution -- The laws of inheritance -- Genes and chromosomes -- Sex -- Genes, proteins, and DNA -- The double helix -- Cracking the code of life -- Genetic engineering -- The human genome -- Lessons of the genome -- Genetic determinism -- Selfish genes -- Nature versus nurture - Genetic diseasess -- Gene hunting -- Cancer -- Behavioral genetics -- Genetic history -- Sex genes -- The battle of the sexes -- Genetic fingerprinting -- GM crops -- Evo-devo -- Stem cells -- Cloning -- Gene therapy -- Genetic testing -- Designer babies -- Junk DNA -- Copy number variation -- Epigenetics -- The RNA revolution -- Artifical life) --…”


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The God gene : how faith is hardwired into our genes by Hamer, Dean

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Genes and the motivation to use substances

Table of Contents: “…Crabbe -- The Adolescent Origins of Substance Use Disorders : A Behavioral Genetic Perspective / Matt McGue, Daniel E. Irons and William G. …”


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