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Sociobiology: An Environmentalist Discipline?

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Crawford, Charles B.; Anderson, Judith L. – American Psychologist, 1989

Presents some of the concepts being developed by evolutionary thinkers to explain how animals deal with varying conditions in their environments. Discusses the environmental perspective. Explains why it involves more than predetermined behavior and that evolutionary theories now include developmental and environmental variables. (Author/JS)

Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Environmental Influences

Environment and Genes: Determinants of Behavior.

Peer reviewed

Plomin, Robert – American Psychologist, 1989

Reviews research on the heritability of intellectual factors, personality factors, and psychopathology. Discusses the importance of investigating within-family environmental differences in order to understand the environmental origins of individual differences in development. (Author/BJV)

Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Disorders, Child Development, Child Psychology