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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Thoughts on Behavioral Genetics

From a writing prompt on our Honors Psychology Discussion Board:
 
Behavioral genetics has always been of immense interest to me. Are emotions merely chemicals and firing neurons? Are we wasting our time on environmental solutions to societal problems? Eugenics...? It's a very interdisciplinary field, covering biology, genetics, pharmacology, psychology, the Human Genome Project, and even history.