Interested in reading more about genetics?  Visit DNA from the Beginning: An Animated Primer on the Basics of DNA, Genes, and Heredity. 

Interested in epigenetics? View the video we watched in class from NOVA's ScienceNow.

Parasitic twins: ABC News story; a more graphic video of the same case

1. Developmental Issues
1. Nature vs. Nurture

For more information on behavioral genetics, visit the behavioral genetics page at the Human Genome Project website.


2. Continuity vs. Stages




3. Stability vs. Change




2. Newborns
1. Abilities
1. Mother's odor vs. that of another woman.
   
2. Mother's voice vs. another woman's.
   
3. Cat in the Hat 
   
   
2. Reflexes
1. Moro
   
2. Grasping
   
3. Rooting
   
4. Sucking
   
5. Swimming
   
6. Babinski 
   
   
3. Infancy and Childhood
1. Cognitive Development.
1. Schema
 
1. Assimilation
   
2. Accommodation 
   
3. Exception
   
   
2. Childrearing Practices
1. Authoritarian 
   
2. Permissive
   
3. Authoritative