Friday, May 18, 2018

Laws of Behavioral Genetics

The three laws of behavioral genetics, written by Eric Turkheimer and supported by Steven Pinker are as follows.

1) All human behavioural traits are heritable.

2) The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of the genes.

3) A substantial portion of the variation in complex human behavioural traits is not accounted for by the effects of genes or families.”


4) A typical human behavioral trait is associated with very many genetic variants, each of which accounts for a very small percentage of the behavioral variability.