Infancy to early childhood : genetic and environmental influences on developmental change /

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Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 393 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:OUP E-Books.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11135609
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Other authors / contributors:Emde, Robert N.
Hewitt, John K.
Kagan, Jerome.
ISBN:9780195344066
0195344065
9780195130126
019513012X
1280472405
9781280472404
0195302176
9780195302172
9786610472406
6610472408
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Behavioral genetics is a fast-growing, multidisciplinary field which attempts to explain the influence of genetic and environmental factors on behavior through the lifespan. The preferred investigative technique for teasing out the differences between genetics and the environment is the longitudinal twin study. This book is the first complete publication from the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study (MALTS) that is by far the most ambitious and comprehensive logitudinal twin study to date. The goal of such an in-depth study was not to merely provide thorough descriptions of developmental change b.
Other form:Print version: Infancy to early childhood. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001 019513012X