Independent replication confirms that avoidance of pathogenic PA14 learned by Caenorhabditis elegans persists through the F2 generation using standardized sodium azide immobilization choice assays, ...

IBG's mission is to conduct interdisciplinary research and training that examines the nature and origins of individual differences in behavior. Current research at IBG uses large scale family, twin, ...

Behavioral traits get passed on via an animal’s genetics, but a new study reveals that the microbiome can pass them on too, ...

In his 2003 bestseller The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Steven Pinker asserts that "The three laws of behavioral genetics may be the most important discoveries in the history of ...

Eric Turkheimer is the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He is a past president of the Behavior Genetics Association, which awarded him the Dobzhansky Prize ...