Charles Davenport Quotes

So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.

I think I am probably a lot like my father.

I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.

I don't believe environment has the slightest bit to do with anything - I only believe in ancestral influence. It would have made no difference whether I'd been brought up in a reform school, or on the island of Lesbos.

I think in any father-son relationship, there's going to be times you say, 'Well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.'

My daughter is full energy, like my wife and I, and strong-minded and has an opinion, like we do. And my boys, one's a bit more calm and chill, and the other is much more sensitive to things. You see this right away, when they're first born. One cried, one didn't, with the boys.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

You can improve your education and even change your environment but what you really ARE was all settled when your parents www born. SELECTED PARENTS WILL HAVE BETTER CHILDREN.

We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.

We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.

I know I've got a lot of my mother in me.

The relationship between heredity and IQ in human beings is well established. But that does not mean that if you have a group difference, an ethnic difference, that difference must also be genetic.

I look like my mother but behave like my father.

I always thought I was more of a mommy's boy, because she was charming, talkative, a great storyteller. But as I dug back into my past, I realized I am exactly like my father on so many levels, although I never thought I inherited anything from him.

We're all a result of our early years and our nature and nurture.

I look so much like my dad - same chin, same cheekbones, same forehead - and I play a little like him too. But I am my mother's son. I am who I am because of her.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

If you live with a single parent, you don't see compromise. You witness a grown person living in a world where they do what they want to do. When you are raised by two parents, you are constantly watching compromise take place. Just by observing that, it made me a better person.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.