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Finally, the fact that genes matter doesn't mean that other things don't matter. Some of the causes of the differences in personality, intellect and pathology are obvious. There are no genes for speaking English or for being a Presbyterian (though there may be sets of genes for verbal...
And still other environmental factors may not be acting as we think they do. It is easy to assume that a variation in behavior not caused by genes must be caused by parents. But it's been surprisingly hard to demonstrate any long-term effects of growing up in any...
Though the effects of genes may be easy to overestimate, they are also easy to underestimate. Many failed utopias of the 20th century dreamed of nurturing a "new man" free of selfishness, family ties and individual differences. Some psychotherapists promise what they cannot deliver, such as transforming a shy person...
XENOTRANSPLANTS Nobody likes the idea of taking organs from another species and putting them in people, a procedure known as xenotransplantation. But human organs are scarce, and pigs' body parts are similar in size and physiology to humans'. Researchers have even found a way to make pig organs less piglike...
Before scientists can figure out how to treat these conditions, they must first figure out what's behind them. Few researchers doubt that when disorders are so woven into temperament, some of what causes them is written into genes. A Norwegian study published in 2000 examined identical and fraternal twins...