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Leonard Heston

American behavioral geneticist
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    behaviour genetics
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    …1966 by American behavioral geneticist Leonard Heston showed that children adopted away from their schizophrenic biological mothers at birth were just as likely to become schizophrenic (about 10 percent) as were children reared by their schizophrenic biological mothers. A 20-year study begun in the 1970s in the United States of…

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    …1966 by American behavioral geneticist Leonard Heston showed that children adopted away from their schizophrenic biological mothers at birth were just as likely to become schizophrenic (about 10 percent) as were children reared by their schizophrenic biological mothers. A 20-year study begun in the 1970s in the United States of…

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