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Episode 63: Brian Boutwell on Twin Studies and Heritability
Season 1 Episode 63
Brian Boutwell is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Mississippi who specializes in “quantitative genetics, with a focus on environmental and psychological risk factors for antisocial and violent behavior.” He has a TED talk, numerous articles in Quillette, and has been published in many journals. Here we discuss his upcoming meta-analysis on twin studies soon to be published in Nature.
We discuss the following two articles:
- Behavioural genetic methods by Willoughby, Polderman, and Boutwell in Nature.
- Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fify years of twin studies by Polderman, etc. in Nature.
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago