Angela
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That includes intelligence, personality, self-control, mental illness, criminality, political views...
I'm tempted to say "tell me something I didn't know". Well, I guess I just did. Anyone who really looks at families realistically, not clouded by political ideology, would know that. I'm turning into my father more and more as I age. Adopted children are not like their parents.
Of course, these academics who found the proof for that had better be careful. We're turning into Sweden, and in Sweden a professor has been fired to teaching that there are "biological" differences between men and women. I assume he meant other than the obvious, but who knows in this day and age? If he had gotten into other things, what would they have done? Executed him?
See:
"Genetic influence on human psychological traits"
http://www18.homepage.villanova.edu...hology/zCurrDir4200/CurrDirGeneticsTraits.pdf
More and more of these metadata studies are being done, which is good.
It's not biological determinism, although things like intelligence and schizophrenia get pretty close, so we are impacted by environment and life experiences, of course. Check out the figures for intelligence, age 50.
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I'm tempted to say "tell me something I didn't know". Well, I guess I just did. Anyone who really looks at families realistically, not clouded by political ideology, would know that. I'm turning into my father more and more as I age. Adopted children are not like their parents.
Of course, these academics who found the proof for that had better be careful. We're turning into Sweden, and in Sweden a professor has been fired to teaching that there are "biological" differences between men and women. I assume he meant other than the obvious, but who knows in this day and age? If he had gotten into other things, what would they have done? Executed him?
See:
"Genetic influence on human psychological traits"
http://www18.homepage.villanova.edu...hology/zCurrDir4200/CurrDirGeneticsTraits.pdf
More and more of these metadata studies are being done, which is good.
It's not biological determinism, although things like intelligence and schizophrenia get pretty close, so we are impacted by environment and life experiences, of course. Check out the figures for intelligence, age 50.