Born Together - Reared Apart
From The London Review of Books, 35, 27-28.
February 7, 2013.
"Consider Jack and Oskar," by Michael Rossi
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Born Together - Reared Apart
From PsycCritiques (Contemporary Psychology, APA)
"Blame It on Darwin and his Cousin," by John D. Hogan
Vol. 58, 2013
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Featured Discussion on PsycCritiques, April 11, 2013
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Born Together - Reared Apart
From Metapsychology Online Reviews
Hennie Weiss, February 12, 2013
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=6780&cn=396
Born Together - Reared Apart
From the Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303552104577436333754014866.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304898704577478482432277706.html
From the journal Lancet,380, p. 1,548, November 3, 2012
Twins and science: A tale of determination, by Tim Spector
http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673612618686.pdf
From the journal SCIENCE: Vol. 237, July 13, 2012, p. 157
Review of Born Together-Reared Apart:
"Similarities Despite Separation"
Reviewed by Dorret I. Boomsma
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An excerpt is provided below; please visit the link immediately above for the full text of the review.
"No study of twins has generated as much publicity, media attention, and discussion in the filed of behavioral genetics as the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart (MISTRA) . . . All readers will find Born Together-Reared Apart a highly valuable account of the entire project."
From: Nature, Vol. 486, 319, June 21, 2012 (Books in Brief):
Born Together — Reared Apart
Nancy L. Segal HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 416 pp. £36.95 (2012) The ‘Jim twins’ constituted a watershed in the nature–nurture debate. When Jim Lewis and Jim Springer — twins separated at four months — were reunited at 39, both were found to have loved maths, worked as sheriffs and practised carpentry, among other startling parallels. The case underlined the importance of genetics and led to the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart. In this inclusive overview, Nancy Segal, director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University, Fullerton, examines the study that turned ideas on parenting, teaching, health and sexual orientation upside down.
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From the Chronicle of Higher Education: New Scholarly Books, June 4, 2012 (Weekly Book List):
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Born Together---Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study by Nancy L. Segal (Harvard University Press; 410 pages; $49.95). Examines the 1979 study and traces its impact on debates over nature versus nurture and individual difference.
From Science News, September 8, 2012:
From Evolutionary Psychology (2012) 10: 656-658.
http://www.epjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/EP10656658.pdf
From Twin Research and Human Genetics, 15, 793-795.
http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/2010to2014/2012-review-born-together.html
by Milton Diamond, University of Hawaii, Pacific Center for Sex and Society
December 2012
From the Orange County Register:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/twins-364573-genes-environment.html
With this book, Segal wants to clarify misconceptions about MISTRA, a controversial but popular study that weighted nature as more important than nurture. She responds to criticism by carefully describing MISTRA's tests, methodology, and results. . . . Recommended for readers interested in behavioral genetics.—Maryse Breton, Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec, Montreal
Library Journal, April 1, 2012
Early mention: Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 31, 2012
http://www.startribune.com/printarticle/?id=144968795
Comment: E.O. Wilson
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