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behavioral genetics

American  

noun

(used with a singular verb)
  1. an interdisciplinary field studying the effects of genetics and hereditary factors on animal and human behavior.


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The Pasadena-based institute, with a 3% admission rate last year, boasts 46 Nobel laureates and cutting-edge research in such fields as earthquake engineering, behavioral genetics, geochemistry, quantum information and aerospace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

Tony Vernon, a psychologist teaching and studying behavioral genetics at Mount Royal University in Canada, agreed that the Binghams’ results were not unusual for identical twins.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022

Neonicotinoids were present and the cause of deaths in honeybees, in the findings of Greg Hunt, a honeybee specialist and professor of behavioral genetics at Purdue University.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 4, 2015

The irony here, according to Dan Gustavson, a researcher of cognitive psychology and behavioral genetics at University of Colorado, Boulder, is that procrastination rarely makes us all that happy.

From Time ● Nov. 30, 2014

The warrior gene resembles other pseudo-discoveries to emerge from behavioral genetics, like the gay gene, the God gene, the high-IQ gene, the alcoholism gene, the gambling gene and the liberal gene.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 26, 2011

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