Comments on: Is Human Behavior Genetic Or Learned?

By: Hereditary vs. Genetic: How Genetics Differs from Heredity

Hereditary vs. Genetic: How Genetics Differs from Heredity — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 15:33:49 +0000

[…] Ultimately, an organism’s majority of traits are also genetic. However, one must not assume that hereditary and genetic are synonymous. There are characteristics that are genetic without being hereditary and vice versa. There are traits that are hereditary without a genetic backdrop or underpinning. […]

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Anonymous — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 05:31:14 +0000

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By: mplo

mplo — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 21:27:20 +0000

In reply to ppnl. More and more, I'm of the opinion that behavior is a combination of genetic tendencies and learned behavior. Both internal and external factors contribute to how somebody turns out, on the long run.

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Sat, 03 Jun 2017 21:56:20 +0000

[…] Most human behavior comes from past learned behavior. […]

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 16:14:39 +0000

In reply to Sami. They first part of what you are saying may be close. But your concept of race is about 50 years out of date.

By: Sami

Sami — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:27:47 +0000

I think that IQ may be governed with multiple genes or may this process occurs via an interactions between many genes which quantitatively expressed in a selective organized manner. Also environment plays as a significant clue to regulate this genetically process. I think this clearly appeared in race differences in IQ.

By: Courgeau

Courgeau — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:19:36 +0000

Thank you very much Greg for your post on behaviour genetics. I am fighting from more than 12 years against this fallacious approach, sustained by a powerful Society from 1970: The Behavior Genetics Society.
The two central points of such a study are(1) the claim that there is a genetic component in behavioural traits, and (2) that the contribution of of this component to the variance of the traits in the population can be measured.
The answer to the first point is evidently ‘yes’, as it would be for any human characteristic. The question can be said to be pointless. To answer the second point, we have to see if it is possible to split up an observed behaviour into a genetic component and an environmental one. We have shown that such an approach, which goes back to what was called biometry in the work of Galton, is devising parallels, conjugates and relatives which in fact do not exist (see our paper on the four Baconian idols in the ResearchGate site : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel_Courgeau .
The entrance in the genomic era did not reduce their audience, even if as said by Charney (2012): “The cumulative evidence of recent discoveries in genetics and epigenetics call into question he valiity of two mthodologies that are cntral to the discipline (behaviour genetics): twin family, and adopion studies, which are used to derive heritability estimates, and gene association studies, which include botth genome-wide and candidat-gene association studies”.
Behaviour genetics suppose the existence of more order and regularity in human heredity than it finds.

By: Gopal Kundu

Gopal Kundu — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 14:54:00 +0000

If all human beings are almost similar (99.99%)then why they will react differently to the same external information?If you have a answer please send it to my email address.

By: JayMan

JayMan — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 03:55:31 +0000

@RegW:

See my comments a few up.