'Born to...' Genetics and behaviour

By: T.P. Berney.
Series: British Journal of Learning Disabilities 26 (1) 1998: 4 - 8.Publisher: 1998Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): BEHAVIOUR | GENETICS | INHERITED DISABILITIESSummary: In its ascendancy, the study of human genetics is shifting from the inheritance of physical structure to that of behaviour and personality, seeking the secret machinery which joins the inherited code to the quirk of character. At the start of the century human behaviour was thought to be largely learned and to stem from upbringing, the blank slate of personality being moulded by parents and events. What had been learned could be unlearned and this accorded with the idea of free will expressed in Cassius claim that 'the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are underlings'. Now at the century's close, the influence of breeding is back in fashion, bringing the implacable effects of genetic determinism and bad blood.[AJ].
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In its ascendancy, the study of human genetics is shifting from the inheritance of physical structure to that of behaviour and personality, seeking the secret machinery which joins the inherited code to the quirk of character. At the start of the century human behaviour was thought to be largely learned and to stem from upbringing, the blank slate of personality being moulded by parents and events. What had been learned could be unlearned and this accorded with the idea of free will expressed in Cassius claim that 'the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are underlings'. Now at the century's close, the influence of breeding is back in fashion, bringing the implacable effects of genetic determinism and bad blood.[AJ].

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