Ah, such an intesting topic! I recommend Matt Ridley Nature via Nurture, if you haven't read it. He adds colour to the research you described. For instance, on twins:
"For nearly all measures of personality, heritability is high in Western society: identical twins raised apart are much more similar than fraternal twins raised apart. The difference between one individual and another owes more to differences in their genes than factors in their family background."
"Paradoxically, the more equal we make society, [..] the more genes will matter."
Some of it is tough to read as a parent: we want our kids to have equally good "cards hand", but they were dealt one at birth and that's what they are going to have, (almost) regardless of how much effort you poor in afterwards.
Ah, such an intesting topic! I recommend Matt Ridley Nature via Nurture, if you haven't read it. He adds colour to the research you described. For instance, on twins:
"For nearly all measures of personality, heritability is high in Western society: identical twins raised apart are much more similar than fraternal twins raised apart. The difference between one individual and another owes more to differences in their genes than factors in their family background."
"Paradoxically, the more equal we make society, [..] the more genes will matter."
Some of it is tough to read as a parent: we want our kids to have equally good "cards hand", but they were dealt one at birth and that's what they are going to have, (almost) regardless of how much effort you poor in afterwards.
Really interesting the “the more equal we make society, [..] the more genes will matter."!! Very interesting topic indeed!!