Behavioral Genetics - Robert Plomin (2003)
Channel: DKshad0w
Date: 2013-05-04

Paper on the genetic influence on cognitive abilities coauthor by Robert Plomin:

Plomin, Robert et al. (2013). Common DNA Markers Can Account for More Than Half of the Genetic Influence on Cognitive Abilities. Psychological Science, April 2013, 24(4) 562-568.
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/24/4/562.full

Top 10 Replicated Findings From Behavioral Genetics
http://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/2016-plomin.pdf

This interview was filmed for the 2003 PBS Documentary DNA.

Plomin earned a B.A. in psychology from DePaul University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in psychology in 1974 from the University of Texas, Austin. He then worked at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 1986 until 1994 he worked at Pennsylvania State University, studying elderly twins reared apart and twins reared together to study aging and is currently at the Institute of Psychiatry (King's College London). He has been president of the Behavior Genetics Association, which in 2002 awarded him the Dobzhansky Memorial Award for a Lifetime of Outstanding Scholarship in Behavior Genetics. He was awarded the William James Fellow Award by the Association for Psychological Science in 2004.

More on Robert Plomin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Plomin
http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/profile/default.aspx?go=10628

Robert Plomin was also one of the 52 signatories of "Mainstream Science on Intelligence":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intelligence http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1994WSJmainstream.pdf