Genetics and human agency: Comment on dar-nimrod and heine (2011)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 825-828

  Turkheimer, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic essentialism

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; NOTE;

FEMALE; GENETIC DETERMINISM; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 80052238996     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024306     Document Type: Note

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