This journal covers research in behavioral genetics. Behavioral genetics is an interdisciplinary field between genetics and psychology and the goal is to understand the genetic underpinnings of behavior, not necessarily human behavior. Quantifying the genetic causes also involves quantifying the non-genetic, environmental causes, so the name is somewhat misleading. Traditionally human behavioral genetics has been done using family studies such as the popular twin studies, however new DNA-based methods such as GREML are quickly gaining traction.

Publications in this journal

• The Nature of Race: the Genealogy of the Concept and the Biological Construct’s Contemporaneous Utility
  John Fuerst
  June 18, 2015

• Genetic and Environmental Determinants of IQ in Black, White and Hispanic Americans: A Meta-analysis and New Analysis
  John Fuerst, Marc Dalliard
  Sept. 15, 2014

• Sexual selection as a mechanism behind sex and population differences in fluid intelligence: an evolutionary hypothesis
  Davide Piffer
  Aug. 9, 2014

• Negotiating the gap
  Peter Frost
  June 20, 2014

• Opposite selection pressures on stature and intelligence across human populations
  Davide Piffer
  May 12, 2014

• The genetic correlation between educational attainment, intracranial volume and IQ is due to recent polygenic selection on general cognitive ability
  Emil O. W. Kirkegaard, Davide Piffer
  April 12, 2014

• L.L. Cavalli-Sforza: A bird in a gilded cage
  Peter Frost
  March 24, 2014