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Twin Studies: What Can They Tell us About Nature and Nurture?

  • Guo G
Contexts (2005) 4(3) 43-47
DOI: 10.1525/ctx.2005.4.3.43
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Twin studies used to be almost the only way to compare the influence of genes against the environment on personality and behavior. Recent advances in genetics, however, suggest that opposing “nature” to “nurture” is misleading. Genes combine with the environment to produce complex human traits.

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Guo, G. (2005). Twin Studies: What Can They Tell us About Nature and Nurture? Contexts, 4(3), 43–47. https://doi.org/10.1525/ctx.2005.4.3.43

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