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refers to a genetic predisposition to a health problem, which may eventually be triggered by particular environmental or lifestyle factors, such as
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by attempts to identify patterns of human behavior that seem to be invariant over long periods of time and in very different cultures.
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displayed by animals can be influenced by genetic predispositions. Genetic predisposition towards certain human behaviors is
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of U.S.A. executive orders and proposed legislation is compiled by the National Center for Genome Resources.
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on May 21, 2008, prohibits discrimination in employment and health insurance based on genetic information.
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like their own. This assumption allows one to predict the behavior of others based on personal knowledge.
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is the capacity humans are born with to learn things such as language and concept of self. Negative
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explores the idea that certain behaviors have been selected for during the course of evolution.
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development of an individual organism within a species or population under the influence of
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is able to identify individuals who are genetically predisposed to certain diseases.
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Genetic discrimination fact sheet from the National Human Genome Research Institute
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is a useful behavioral strategy by which humans assume that others have
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may block the predisposition (ability) one has to do some things.
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What does it mean to have a genetic predisposition to a disease?
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has proposed that humans are genetically predisposed to have a
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discuss the idea of genetic predisposition of behaviors.
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identical (monozygotic) and fraternal (dizygotic) twins
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Index

genetic
phenotypic
environmental
genetic susceptibility
disease
tobacco smoking
diet
Genetic testing
Predisposition
environmental influences
Behaviors
scientifically investigated
Daniel Dennett
theory of mind
evolutionary
intentional stance
minds
Hans Eysenck
Donald Prell
identical (monozygotic) and fraternal (dizygotic) twins
Journal of Mental Science
E. O. Wilson's
book on sociobiology
Consilience
evolutionary psychology
Genetic discrimination
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
George W. Bush
Human nature
Nature versus nurture

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