Our genes, our choices : how genotype and gene interactions affect behavior / David Goldman.

Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier Academic Press, 2012.

xvii, 254 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

1st ed.

Neurogenetic origins of behavior -- Jinn in the genome -- 2B or not 2B? -- Stephen Mobley and his X-chromosome -- Dial multifactorial for murder: the intersection of genes and culture -- Distorted capacity I: the measure of the impaired will -- Distorted capacity II: neuropsychiatric diseases and the impaired will -- Inheritance of behavior and genes for behavior: gene wars -- Scientific and historic bases of genethics: who watches the geneticists and by what principles? -- World is double helical -- DNA, RNA and proteins in a few easy pieces -- Stochastic brain: from DNA blueprint to behavior -- Reintroducing genes and behavior -- Warriors and worriers -- How many genes does it take to make a behavior? -- Genesis and genetics of sexual behavior -- Gene by environment interaction -- Epigenetic revolution: finding the imprint of the environment on the genome -- DNA on trial -- Parents and children: neurogenetic determinism and neurogenetic individuality -- Summing up genetic predictors of behavior.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index.