Education Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

“Study a gene in only one environment and, by definition, you’ve eliminated the ability to see if it works differently in other environments (in…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“If genes strongly influence average levels of a trait, that trait is strongly inherited. If genes strongly influence the extent of variability around that…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

All the work on heritability was never based on looking at genes; it was based on the similarity between identical twins or between parents…

— Jerome Kagan

“What’s a heritability score? “What does a gene do?” is at least two questions. How does a gene influence average levels of a trait?…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“...the results have consistently suggested that introversion and extroversion, like other major personality traits such as agreeableness and conscientiousness, are about 40 to 50 percent heritable.”

— Susan Cain

“Genes have plenty to do with behavior. Even more appropriately, all behavioral traits are affected to some degree by genetic variability.65 They have to…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack of a…

— Ronald Fisher

“The evidence from behavior genetics and twin studies indicating that 40 to 50 percent of the variance among people in temperament, personality, and many…

— Michael Shermer

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment…

— John B. S. Haldane

Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person…

— Steven Pinker

Traits don't change, states of mind do.

— Elizabeth Strout

“While upbringing can make a big difference in the short run, scholars argue that, in the long run, grown twins display personality and sociological…

— Kevin DeYoung