(thing) by skybluefusion Thu Feb 28 2002 at 21:15:08

Behavioral genetics uses the adoption method by studying children that were adopted shortly after birth. By comparing their abilities and personality traits to those of their adoptive family members with whom they live with and also compairing them with their biological parents whom they have never met, researchers can disentangle the effects of heredity and environment.

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