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Research on behavioural genetics has radically changed our understanding of human behaviour. Until quite recently, most psychologists would probably have shared the public view that while genes play a major role in determining our bodies—height, weight and so on—their influence on behaviour is limited. Our genes give us our brains, but what we do with our brains is almost entirely determined by our environment.
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© 2016 David A. Lieberman
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Lieberman, D.A. (2016). Childhood: Environment. In: The Case Against Free Will. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137345257_4
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