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Humans, fruit flies, and automatons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2012

Evan Charney
Evan Charney*
Affiliation:
Department of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 90239. http://fds.duke.edu/db/Sanford/faculty/echar
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Abstract

My response is divided into four sections: (1) is devoted to a potpourri of commentaries that are essentially in agreement with the substance of my target article (with one exception); in (2) I address, in response to one of the commentaries, several issues relating to the use of candidate gene association studies in behavior genetics (in particular those proposing a specific G×E interaction); in (3) I provide a detailed response to several defenses of the twin study methodology; and in (4) I conclude with several reflections on that methodology and the conception of human nature it has fostered.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 381 - 410
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