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This was discussed in the 201g afterword in the new edition of The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature t.co/b1UOqiR4JB
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Bee Gee: New mutations in identical twins show that estimates of heritabilty from behavioral genetic studies using twins may be underestimates. Diffs between twins standardly attributed to "nonshared environment," but some may be due to "nonshared genes."
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Cases like these & their cognitive implications were discussed in How the Mind Works (see the Blick twins). t.co/5Ths7IeHgU
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Cog sci: Mental representation of a person is not a bundle of statistically associated features, as in neural net & other associationist models. If so, twins would be indistinguishable (including p=.5 guilty) & we'd punish both or flip a coin. People are individuals, not traits.
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New genetic test to distinguish identical twins 1 of whom committed a crime has interesting implications for cognitive science and behavioral genetics t.co/jRNysUzXJw
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