Evidence for the innate

• Darwin, Lorenz, Tinbergen - species-specific behaviors - breeding of domestic animals
• Individual experience - phobias
• Child development

Experimental demonstration of the innate

Genetics as the explanation of the "innate" - cricket
(Bentley and Hoy, The Neurobiology of Cricket Song, Scientific American, May 1974)

Significance of genetic information

• evolution as summary of observations
• importance of variation/diversity

Is influence, not determinant

Is both real and productive to think about in all behavioral contexts (including mental health)

• NBS senior seminar - intro
• NBS senior seminar - background

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