Reviews and evaluates psychological studies of separately raised identical twins and suggests which aspects of human experience are largely shaped by one's heredity

This study of data collected by scientists at the University of Minnesota reports the unexpected similarities discovered in identical twins raised apart and explores the wide-ranging implications of these findings

A synthesis of the theory of archetypes, central to Jungian psychology, and the ethological and sociobiological discoveries of the past several decades provides new insights into human behavior and our place in the universe

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Product Description: Behaviour genetics is at the interface of the two disciplines, genetics and psychology. Whereas earlier texts have stressed what is known about the genetics of behaviour, the emphasis here is more on what purpose such information can have for science and society and what it can tell us about behaviour...read more

Product Description: First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

With insight and wit, Robert J. Richards focuses on the development of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior from their first distinct appearance in the eighteenth century to their controversial state today. Particularly important in the nineteenth century were Charles Darwin's ideas about instinct, reason, and morality, which Richards considers against the background of Darwin's personality, training, scientific and cultural concerns, and intellectual community. Many critics have argued that the Darwinian revolution stripped nature of moral purpose and ethically neutered the human animal. Richards contends, however, that Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and their disciples attempted to reanimate moral life, believing that the evolutionary process gave heart to unselfish, altruistic behavior."Richards's book is now the obvious introduction to the history of ideas about mind and behavior in the nineteenth century."—Mark Ridley, Times Literary Supplement"Not since the publication of Michael Ghiselin's The Triumph of the Darwinian Method has there been such an ambitious, challenging, and methodologically self-conscious interpretation of the rise and development and evolutionary theories and Darwin's role therein."—John C. Greene, Science "His book . . . triumphantly achieves the goal of all great scholarship: it not only informs us, but shows us why becoming thus informed is essential to understanding our own issues and projects."—Daniel C. Dennett, Philosophy of Science

Product Description: Conjoined twins born before the advent of surgical separation techniques have long been of special interest to scientists. Sharing an identical genetic make-up and an identical environment, these twins have provided a unique opportunity for the study of innate and cultural determinants on the individual...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With the discovery of conditioned reflexes by I. P. Pavlov, the possibilities for experimenting, following the example set by the classical, exact sciences, were made available to the behavioral sciences. Many psychologists hoped that the component parts of behavior had also been found from which the entire, multifaceted cosmos of behavior could then be constructed...read more

Discusses the genetic forces that shape our personalities, and identifies inborn inclinations such as adaptability, timetable of maturation, and susceptibility to environmental factors