PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sociobiology, Epigenetics
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Dizogotic is fraternal, they have eggs and spern from same parent (just developed in same uterus at same time) Children raised in families other than their own. Nature: everything is encoded biologically (in our genes) ie. lorenz and german. Nurture: everything is learned through experience i. e. watson, skinner. Modern view: the two are not separable, a better statement would be nature via. Adds whole re layer of genes beyond the dna, proposes a control system of. Switches that turn gene on or off 0 suggests that things people experience, like nutrition and stress can control these switches and cause heritable effects in humans. Research has demonstrated that genes and the environment are not mutually exclusive but are inextricably intertwined, one affecting another. Idea of inheritance is not just about which genes you inherit but whether these are switch on or off is a whole new frontier in biology.
