Re: virus: Races

Robin Faichney (robin@faichney.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 14 Jun 1998 19:01:24 +0100

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In message <199806141627.LAA10283@castaway.uwf.edu>, Joe E. Dees
<jdees0@students.uwf.edu> writes
>See the identical twin 'separated at birth' studies done at the U.
>of Minnesota (Research With Twins: The Concept of Emergenesis by
>David T. Lykken, The Journal for Psychophysiological Research, Vol.
>19, #2 {1982}). As a result of these studies, the "rule of two
>thirds" was proposed; roughly 2/3 of our behavioral differences
>(preferences, abilities, attitudes, aptitudes, moods, etc. ) are due
>to genetics, 1/3 are due to environment.

1982 is eons ago, in terms of such research. A few
weeks ago I heard a twins-studies specialist suggest
that it was more like 50/50. Sorry I can't give an
actual citation, though.

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Robin

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