Hormones and Heredity

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The paper discusses how, although environment and heredity are important sources of determining human behavior, hormones also have a marked influence on our physical and mental state and thus can alter our behavior, at least for some time. The paper explains that while someone may be genetically predisposed to certain behavior, he is not likely to act until there are other influences fueling that action. The paper shows how heredity is a weak source in isolation, but together with environmental factors, hormones may influence a person's behavior.

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"Human behavior has been an interesting subject of discussion and research. It is commonly believed that genes and environment determine human behavior. We need to not forget that genes are precisely what we call hereditary in ordinary language. When we are that someone is hereditarily prone to doing a certain thing, what we mean is that his genetic makeup makes his susceptible to such an action. There are certain characteristics or personality traits that human beings inherit and thus we blame these on genes."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Leary, Daniel B., Modern Psychology: Normal and Abnormal, Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott Co., I928
• Peter MacDougall, UBC archives. Accessed online 10th Jan, 2006 from, http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/pdfs/432/THE432_1988_02_10.pdf

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