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The failure of gene-centrism.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The Behavioral and brain sciences [Behav Brain Sci] 2023 Sep 11; Vol. 46, pp. e209. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 11.
Abstract: "Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science" is a compelling but limited critique. Phenotypic development is sensitive to both initial conditions and all subsequent states - from conception to senescence. Thus, gene-centric analyses...
Vertical pleiotropy explains the heritability of social science traits.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The Behavioral and brain sciences [Behav Brain Sci] 2023 Sep 11; Vol. 46, pp. e230. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 11.
Abstract: We contend that social science variables are the product of multiple partly heritable traits. Genetic associations with socioeconomic status (SES) may differ across populations, but this is a consequence of the intermediary traits associated with SES d...
Evolution of conditional cooperation in collective-risk social dilemma with repeated group interactions.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Proceedings. Biological sciences [Proc Biol Sci] 2023 Sep 13; Vol. 290 (2006), pp. 20230949. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 06.
Abstract: The evolution and long-term sustenance of cooperation has consistently piqued scholarly interest across the disciplines of evolutionary biology and social sciences. Previous theoretical and experimental studies on collective risk social dilemma games h...
Thermodynamics 2.0: Bridging the natural and social sciences.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences [Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci] 2023 Aug 07; Vol. 381 (2252), pp. 20220275. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 19.
Abstract: Thermodynamics is a universal science. The language of thermodynamics is energy and its derivatives such as entropy and power. The physical theory of thermodynamics reigns across a full spectrum of non-living objects as well as living beings. In the tr...
Often wrong, sometimes useful: Including polygenic scores in social science research.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The Behavioral and brain sciences [Behav Brain Sci] 2023 Sep 11; Vol. 46, pp. e213. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 11.
Abstract: This commentary seeks to briefly outline a clear-eyed middle ground between Burt's claims that the inclusion of polygenic scores (PGSs) is essentially useless for social science and proponents' vast overstatements and over-interpretations of these scor...
Increasing the use of functional and multimodal genetic data in social science research.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The Behavioral and brain sciences [Behav Brain Sci] 2023 Sep 11; Vol. 46, pp. e223. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 11.
Abstract: Genetic studies in the social sciences could be augmented through the additional consideration of functional (transcriptome, methylome, metabolome) and/or multimodal genetic data when attempting to understand the genetics of social phenomena. Understan...
Polygenic scores for social science: Clarification, consensus, and controversy.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The Behavioral and brain sciences [Behav Brain Sci] 2023 Sep 11; Vol. 46, pp. e232. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 11.
Abstract: In this response, I focus on clarifying my arguments, highlighting consensus, and addressing competing views about the utility of polygenic scores (PGSs) for social science. I also discuss an assortment of expansions to my arguments and suggest alterna...
Methodological question-begging about the causes of complex social traits.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The Behavioral and brain sciences [Behav Brain Sci] 2023 Sep 11; Vol. 46, pp. e226. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 11.
Abstract: Burt formulates her critique at a general level of abstraction that highlights the methodological deficiencies of sociogenomics without also calling attention to precisely the same deficiencies in the social science model she seeks to defend against it...
Beware of the phony horserace between genes and environments.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The Behavioral and brain sciences [Behav Brain Sci] 2023 Sep 11; Vol. 46, pp. e228. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 11.
Abstract: Although Burt provides a valuable critique of the scientific value of integrating genetic data into social science research, she reinforces rather than disrupts the age-old horserace between genetic effects and environmental effects. We must move past ...
Burt uses a fallacious motte-and-bailey argument to dispute the value of genetics for social science.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The Behavioral and brain sciences [Behav Brain Sci] 2023 Sep 11; Vol. 46, pp. e231. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 11.
Abstract: Burt's argument relies on a motte-and-bailey fallacy. Burt aims to argue against the value of genetics for social science; instead she argues against certain interpretations of a specific kind of genetics tool, polygenic scores (PGSs). The limitations,...