Behavioral Genetics

Behavioral genetics is the study of the interaction between the environment on is in and his/her genetic makeup. With roots in the study of human behavior and heredity by Sir Francis Galton, the relatively new field of behavior genetics seeks to identify the correlations between nature and nurture by the study of human DNA and different environmental variables. This task is confounded by certain obstacles such as the difficulty to define certain traits in a human being, such as intelligence, maintaining validity and reliability in test results, discovering the multiple genes that interact in behavior, and completing in-depth studies of populations and families involved in the study, determining the habitability, which can change with populations/environment modifications.
The biological basis of behavior is the study that Galton started in the late nineteenth century. Through the years evidence has been found to indicate that behavior does in fact have a biological basis. Such f...