Genetic Endowment and Environment in the Determination of Human Behavior
Biological Viewpoint
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8223316 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ernst Caspari (University of Rochester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43 |
| Publication date | 1968-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Educational Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8312 • E-ISSN: 1935-1011 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1161700 |
| OpenAlex | W4245395472, W2078575391 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
The heredity-environment problem, or as it is frequently called, the nature-nurture controversy has given rise to a large amount of misunderstanding and difficulty which has made it harder than it would otherwise have been to apply properly our knowledge of biology to problems in the behavioral and social sciences. Some of the difficulties in transferring knowledge from one field to another are real; but others are dependent on misunderstandings, and these have the further disadvantage that they may lead to the improper application of ideas to situations where they do not apply. I am therefore very grateful for the opportunity to talk to you tonight, because I hope that I shall be able to clear up some of these misconceptions, and suggest some ideas how our genetic knowledge can be properly applied in educational research. First of all I would like to dispel the misconception that geneticists are people who believe that every character is unambiguously determined by the genes in the fertilized egg cell. Geneticists have been aware from the very start that many characters depend in their expression strongly on environmental influences. The relation of hereditary factors and environmental influences in the develop
Econometrics · Economics · Endowment · Political science · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · Human Health and Disease · Law · Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1972 - 2015 (44) |
| Highly cited | No |