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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!NERVM.BITNET!PLOWRY
  3. Message-ID: <PSYCGRAD%92091315520640@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.psycgrad
  5. Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:45:04 EDT
  6. Sender:       "Psychology Graduate Students Discussion Group List"
  7.               <PSYCGRAD@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
  8. From:         Paul Lowry <PLOWRY@NERVM.BITNET>
  9. Subject:      3 issues on personality/Genetics
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  12. To Rich Adlin:   Your instructor takes an extreme position in the nature -
  13. nature controversy.  I like to think of myself as a moderate allowing for con-
  14. tributions from both genetics and environment.  One book that I found very help
  15. full, though representing the opposite extreme was:
  16.             Lewontin, R.C., Rose, S.P.R., & Kamin, L.J (1984).  Not in our
  17.                 genes.  New York: Pantheon.
  18. The authors are geneticists, anthropologists, and psychologists arguing that
  19. genetics play a very minor part.
  20.                                   pL
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