Nature Nurture & Psychology by Plomin, Robert and McClearn, Gerald E - 1993

Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1993. First edition (stated).

SUPERB LATE 20TH CENTURY ANTHOLOGY OF THE NATURE-NURTURE DEBATE IN PSYCHOLOGY, SIGNED BY EDITOR--INSCRIBED TO SIR PATRICK BATESON, LEADER IN STUDY OF GENETICS, ENVIRONMENT, AND BEHAVIOR.

9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, purple cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed on front free endpaper, "August 6, 1993/ To Pat,/ With best regards,/ Robert." xvi, 498 pp, fine in fine jacket in mylar sleeve.

ROBERT PLOMIN (born 1948) is an American psychologist and geneticist best known for his work in twin studies and behavior genetics. From 1986 until 1994 he worked at Pennsylvania State University, studying elderly twins reared apart and twins reared together to study aging and since 1994 has been at the Institute of Psychiatry (King's College London). He has been president of the Behavior Genetics Association. Plomin was ranked among the 100 most eminent psychologists in the history of science. In 2005, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for humanities and social sciences. Plomin has shown the importance of non-shared environment, a term that he coined to refer to the idiosyncratic environmental factors that reduce the similarity of individuals raised in the same family environment. In addition, he has shown that many environmental measures in psychology show genetic influence and that genetic factors can mediate associations between environmental measures and developmental outcomes. Plomin currently conducts the Twins Early Development Study of all twins born in England from 1994 to 1996, focusing on developmental delays in early childhood, their association with behavioral problems and educational attainment.

GERALD E. McCLEARN (1927 – 2017) was an American behavior geneticist and professor emeritus of health and human development and biobehavioral health at the Pennsylvania State University. McClearn was on staff at the Department of Psychology at University of California, Berkeley from 1956 to 1965. He then joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at University of Colorado Boulder, as an associate professor. Promoted to full professor, he remained at Boulder until 1981. Early on at Colorado, McClearn planned to form a research institute dedicated to research and teaching in behavioral genetics; he subsequently founded the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1966, and was an early member of the Behavior Genetics Association, becoming one of its first presidents in 1974.

PROVENANCE: SIR PATRICK BATESON (1938 – 2017) was an English biologist with interests in ethology and phenotypic plasticity. Bateson was a professor at the University of Cambridge and served as president of the Zoological Society of London from 2004 to 2014. Bateson was a biologist who specialised in researching the behavior of animals and how it is influenced by genetic and environmental factors. He was a world authority on imprinting in birds — the process of learning to recognise their parents and members of their own species — and his work led to new principles in behavioural development. He had an interest in how developmental and behavioural processes influence evolution. Bateson was knighted for services to science in the 2003 Birthday Honours list. He received an Honorary Doctor of Science (ScD) degree from the University of St Andrews and an Honorary Fellowship from Queen Mary University of London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1983. In 2014 he received the Frink Medal from the Zoological Society of London.