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A developmental science commentary on Charney's “Behavior genetics and postgenomics”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2012

George F. Michel
George F. Michel*
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402. gfmichel@uncg.edu
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Abstract

Charney's target article convincingly demonstrates the need for the discipline of quantitative human behavior genetics to discard its false assumptions and to employ the techniques, assumptions, and research program characteristic of modern developmental psychobiology.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 371 - 372
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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