Titel
The Adapting Mind in the Genomic Era
Abstract
Genomics and molecular biology has added substantial methods and knowledge to nearly all fields of biology and medicine. In this review we try to demonstrate how genomics and molecular biology is also on the way to have a profound impact on behavioral anthropology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary sociology, and bio-sociology. We propose that particularly studies on “selection and adaptation” will be influenced profoundly by genomics, for instance via identification of the partially genetic basis of human behavior by “candidate gene studies” and by “genome wide association studies.” In addition, epigenetics will lead to a deeper study of the interaction of the genetic basis of a behavior and its environmental regulation. We argue that the “genomic revolution” is much more than merely a new methodological approach, but will change our concepts of human behavior and its development in the evolution of homo.
Stichwort
behavioral anthropologyevolutionary psychologyhuman genetics and genomicsbioinformaticsepigenetics
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:528332
Erschienen in
Titel
Frontiers in Psychology
Band
7
Verlag
Frontiers Media SA
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
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