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What Twins Can Teach Us About Genetics vs. Environment
What Twins Can Teach Us About Genetics vs. Environment
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Length:
65 minutes
Released:
Mar 31, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
How much of our children's basic temperament, their mental health, their intelligence, their learning disabilities, and all the things that make them who they are comes from their genes and how much from their environment. What can we learn about genetics vs. environment from the ongoing twin studies, including the study of twins separated at birth? Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support organization, interviews three leading twin researchers: Dr. Matt McGue, Professor of Psychology at University of Minnesota, a behavioral and quantitative geneticist, Co-Director of Minnesota Twin Family Study and the Sibling Interaction and Behavior Study and Research on Adoption and adoptive dad; and Dr. Nancy Segal, Professor of Psychology, Director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University, Fullerton and author of Indivisible by Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins and Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior.
Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here:
Blog summary of the show
Highlights
More Creating a Family resources on nature vs. nurture can be found here.
Support the show (https://creatingafamily.org/donation/)
Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here:
Blog summary of the show
Highlights
More Creating a Family resources on nature vs. nurture can be found here.
Support the show (https://creatingafamily.org/donation/)
Released:
Mar 31, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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