Explain what adoption studies are and why they are used in behavior genetics research.
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Behavior geneticists use adoption studies to try to find out the relative contributions of heredity and environment to a given behavior or characteristic. Researchers compare adopted children to their adoptive parents and to their biological parents to see whom they resemble more, and in what ways. Because the children share genes with their biological parents, yet share an environment with their adoptive parents, if the children are more similar in a given way to their biological parents than adoptive parents, behavior geneticists conclude that heredity likely plays a significant role in behavior or characteristics. If adopted children are more similar in a given way to their adoptive parents than to their biological parents, then environment may play a larger role for that behavior or characteristic.
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