Studying how all this genetic material works, and especially how genes influence human behavior, is an enormously complicated undertaking – one that's being made easier by the emergence of massive ...

Ever since she was little, Sydney Morton knew she wanted to work in a career that allowed her to work with animals. She began ...

Researchers have found that the genes linked to certain behavioral traits in golden retrievers, such as trainability and fear ...

Behavioral genetics is a field of scientific research that examines genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in behavior. Behavioral genetics aims to answer the fundamental ...

Raffan and colleagues recently analyzed the genetic codes of 1,300 golden retrievers, and compared them to their behavioral ...

Researchers analyzed the genomes and behavioral profiles of 1,300 golden retrievers and found that several behavioral traits—such as trainability, fear of strangers, and aggression toward other ...

People and pups may be more genetically similar than widely believed. In A Nutshell A gene linked to dog aggression is also ...

It has long been known that there is a complex interplay between genetic factors and environmental influences in shaping behavior. Recently it has been found that genes governing behavior in the brain ...

Valerie Knopik, the Ben and Maxine Miller Professor of Human Development and Family Science and head of the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Purdue University is the new president ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote ...

To get around that, a team of researchers recently did the largest gene/behavior association study within a single dog breed.

Scientists are beginning to trace a surprising link between the genes that shape dog behavior and the biology that underpins ...