title: Author’s response: Humans, fruit flies, and automatons.
abstract: My response is divided into four sections: (1) is devoted to a potpourri of commentaries that are essentially in agreement with the substance of my target article (with one exception); in (2) I address, in response to one of the commentaries, several issues relating to the use of candidate gene association studies in behavior genetics (in particular those proposing a specific G × E interaction); in (3) I provide a detailed response to several defenses of the twin study methodology; and in (4) I conclude with several reflections on that methodology and the conception of human nature it has fostered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 90239, USA.
authors.forename: Evan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Charney
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005824:Genetics, Behavioral; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy