Can behavior genetics contribute to evolutionary studies of behavior?

Bailey, M. H.

doi:10.1016/0162-3095(94)90029-9

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“…These results also suggest that the same set of pleiotropic genes influence each of the measured life history traits considerably. This finding supports the hypothesis that Life History Strategy is predominantly under the control of regulatory genes that coordinate the expression of an entire array of life history traits (cf.. Bailey, 1998). Presumably, common genetic control is necessary to integrate these individual tactical elements into a coherent and internally consistent reproductive strategy.…”

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“…Alternative interpretations are always possible. However, we believe that this heuristic strategy has met with reasonable success in providing theoretical guidance for the construction of a multivariate behavioral genetic model of life history strategy, as predicted by Bailey (1998). We believe that we have made and confirmed predictions that might not be readily derivable from other theories.…”

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“…In general, an evolutionary psychological approach, in conjunction with a behavioral genetic approach, will contribute to the science of understanding the mechanisms underlying personality (Bouchard, 1995). Thus, behavioral genetics can make great contributions to evolutionary behavioral science, and evolutionary theory, especially LHT, can make great contributions to behavioral genetics (Bailey, 1998;Figueredo, 2000).…”

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The heritability of life history strategy: The k‐factor, covitality, and personality

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Vásquez

Brumbach

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Biodemography and Social Biology

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Archival data from the MIDUS survey (Brim et al., 2000), a nationally representative sample, on 309 MZ and 333 DZ twin pairs aged 25-74 years were used to test the psychometrics and behavioral genetics of life history strategy. We organized 253 of the originally administered 2,000 questions into 30 scales measuring life history traits (e.g., quality of family relationships and altruism towards kin), medical symptoms (e.g., thyroid problems), personality traits (e.g., neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness), and social background (e.g., financial security). A single higher-order factor, indicating a general life history strategy, composed of three lower-order factors, was replicated. Factor analyses were then performed on the genetic variance-covariance matrices. We found that (a) a single higher-order factor explained the preponderance of the genetic correlations among the scales and (b) this higher-order factor was itself 68 percent heritable and accounted for 82 percent of the genetic variance among the three component lower-order factors.

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The heritability of life history strategy: The k‐factor, covitality, and personality

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Vásquez

Brumbach

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“…Indeed, Eric Turkheimer in an essay titled 'Three laws of behaviour genetics and what they mean' (Turkheimer, 2000) gives 'all human behavioural traits are heritable' as his first law of behaviour genetics. Rejecting the null hypothesis that behaviours are not heritable is therefore no longer of much interest (Bailey, 1998;Turkheimer, 2011). The genetic effects of the mating rule in the thought experiment on behavioural traits therefore mirror those illustrated using height.…”

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Some Uses of Models of Quantitative Genetic Selection in Social Science

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2016

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Summary. The theory of selection of quantitative traits is widely used in evolutionary biology, agriculture and other related fields. The fundamental model known as the breeder's equation is simple, robust over short time scales, and it is often possible to estimate plausible parameters. In this paper it is suggested that the results of this model provide useful yardsticks for the description of social traits and the evaluation of transmission models. The differences on a standard personality test between samples of Old Order Amish and Indiana rural young men from the same county and the decline of homicide in Medieval Europe are used as illustrative examples of the overall approach. It is shown that the decline of homicide is unremarkable under a threshold model while the differences between rural Amish and non-Amish young men are too large to be a plausible outcome of simple genetic selection in which assortative mating by affiliation is equivalent to truncation selection.

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“…Note, however, that even traits that are probably strongly associated with fitness, ovary size and egg production, have substantial heritabilities (in the range of 20%-30%). Bailey (1998) summarized how heritability can be appreciable despite selection, citing such causes as mutation, antagonistic pleiotropy, and temporally or spatially fluctuating selection. Note also in Table 1 that heritabilities of female orgasm are in line with those of traits in Drosophila, such as ovary size, that have probably been subject to selection (Dawood et al, 2005;Dunn et al, 2005).…”

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