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Nature and Nurture during Infancy and Early Childhood

By Robert Plomin , John C. Defries , David W. Fulker

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
9780521034241, 9780511527654, 0521343704, 0521034248, 0511527659, 9780521343701
LCC
BF701 .P55 1988
Open Library ID
OL21527984M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7254533 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
360\357
Topic
Science (general)\\Scientific-popular
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In light of work by quantitative geneticists, the authors reconsider the interaction of heredity and environment in the development of individual differences during infancy and early childhood. Quantitative genetics offers a general theory of the development of individual differences that suggests novel concepts and research strategies: the idea that genetic influences operate in age-to-age change as well as in continuity, for example. Quantitative genetics also provides powerful methods to address questions of change and continuity which are helpfully introduced in this study. Longitudinal quantitative genetic research is essential to the understanding of developmental change and continuity. The largest and longes longitudinal adoption study is the Colorado Adoption Project, which has generated much of the rich data on the progress from infancy to early childhood on which the authors draw throughout the book.

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