{"id":309,"date":"2007-11-27T15:33:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T15:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/27\/genes-and-behavior\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T15:33:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T15:33:50","slug":"genes-and-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/genes-and-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Genes and Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genes determine basic behavior, like the behavior associated with being a predator. Or avoiding being eaten by a predator.  This we know to be true because millions, zillions, of years of evolution must have shaped genes &#8230; especially in mammals with with their whopping big brains and all &#8230; to have genetically coded behaviors.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingwv.com\/love-everybody-even-the-squirrelly-ones\/\">http:\/\/www.bloggingwv.com\/love-everybody-even-the-squirrelly-ones\/<\/a><!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-0c71c47ac9879de4f83c03577077a6a1-image002.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-0c71c47ac9879de4f83c03577077a6a1-image002.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Or, perhaps not.  Perhaps we need a slightly different view of behavioral genetics.  (click on the picture to see the whole story..)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genes determine basic behavior, like the behavior associated with being a predator. Or avoiding being eaten by a predator. This we know to be true because millions, zillions, of years of evolution must have shaped genes &#8230; especially in mammals with with their whopping big brains and all &#8230; to have genetically coded behaviors.http:\/\/www.bloggingwv.com\/love-everybody-even-the-squirrelly-ones\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[95],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}