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Eric Turkheimer is the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia.

Turkheimer has coined what he calls the "three laws of behaviour genetics":

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First Law. All human behavioral traits are heritable.
Second Law. The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of genes.
Third Law. A substantial portion of the variation in complex human behavioral traits is not accounted for by the effects of genes or families.^[1]

In contrast to other contributors in the field, such as Robert Plomin, he emphasizes the fact that we have in very few cases demonstrated specific causal links between genes and behavior.^[2]

Turkheimer is critical of hereditarianism about differences in average IQ scores between one race and another,^[3] and argues they are best understood as environmental in origin.^[4] He has, along with two other prominent behavioral geneticists (Kathryn Harden and Richard Nisbett), authored various article disproving Charles Murray's hereditarian bullshit on IQ differences between various "races".^[5]^[6]

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↑ Turkheimer, Eric. "Three laws of behavior genetics and what they mean." Current Directions in Psychological Science 9.5 (2000): 160-164.
↑ Turkheimer, E. (2016). Weak Genetic Explanation 20 Years Later: Reply to Plomin et al. (2016). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(1), 24–28. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691615617442
↑ https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/6/15/15797120/race-black-white-iq-response-critics
↑ https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-24333-015
↑ https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/5/18/15655638/charles-murray-race-iq-sam-harris-science-free-speech
↑ https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/6/15/15797120/race-black-white-iq-response-critics

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[1] Turkheimer, Eric. "Three laws of behavior genetics and what they mean." Current Directions in Psychological Science 9.5 (2000): 160-164.

[2] Turkheimer, E. (2016). Weak Genetic Explanation 20 Years Later: Reply to Plomin et al. (2016). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(1), 24–28. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691615617442

[3] ttps://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/6/15/15797120/race-black-white-iq-response-critics

[4] ttps://psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-24333-015

[5] ttps://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/5/18/15655638/charles-murray-race-iq-sam-harris-science-free-speech

[6] ttps://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/6/15/15797120/race-black-white-iq-response-critics

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