1. Are You A Natural? Liya James & Lexi Smith

2. Background Thomas Bouchard & David Lykken How much influence do your genes have in the outcome of traits?

3. Theoretical Propositions Identical twins raised in separate homes One fertilized egg 56 pairs of MGA twins

4. Method/Procedure ● Studied identical twins that had been separated at birth ● Each twin separately tested for intelligence and personality traits

5. Results MZT should be more similar, not the case Correlations remarkably similar Close to 1.00 no less than.700

6. Discussion and Implications of Findings ● Environment less influence than genes ●Strong ●Correlations in MZA ●Intelligence is primarily genetic

7. Criticism ●Any two people can have a lot of similarities ●Lack of full data publishment (Billings) ●Other articles state strong environmental influences not considered

8. Recent Applications ● Genes drive Environment selection ● Genetically drive affects other aspects as well ● Research applied to human cloning

9. Cool Video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yTCShe mS_0