Comments on: Social and individual behavior genetics http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/07/16/social-and-individual-behavior-genetics/ Genetics Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 By: Yawnie http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/07/16/social-and-individual-behavior-genetics/#comment-1508 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:26:32 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=629#comment-1508 The men who chose to be in polyandrous relationships may have been doing so because it was that or nothing; those men will never marry now (given the excess of males in India).

]]> By: Biologist http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/07/16/social-and-individual-behavior-genetics/#comment-1505 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:50:06 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=629#comment-1505 While we’re on the topic of heritability coefficients, it’s worth pointing out that fear of determinism is unjustified.

The simplest way to get across that point is that what we should fear is lack of free will, not determinism.

Genes may happen to ultimately determine a phenotype as part of a complex causal network, and yet that might tell us little about the potential for malleability and change or the roll of intention in that outcome.

]]> By: ben g http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/07/16/social-and-individual-behavior-genetics/#comment-1499 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:29:55 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=629#comment-1499 I wonder if there have been any studies comparing heritability estimates in industrialized societies to those in various pre-modern societies.

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