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Heredity, Environment, and Personality

A Study of 850 Sets of Twins

By John C. Loehlin and Robert C. Nichols

University of Texas Press, 1976

This volume reports on a study of 850 pairs of twins who were tested to determine the influence of heredity and environment on individual differences in personality, ability, and interests. It presents the background, research design, and procedures of the study, a complete tabulation of the test results, and the authors’ extensive analysis of their findings. Based on one of the largest studies of twin behavior conducted in the twentieth century, the book challenges a number of traditional beliefs about genetic and environmental contributions to personality development.

The subjects were chosen from participants in the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test of 1962 and were mailed a battery of personality and interest questionnaires. In addition, parents of the twins were sent questionnaires asking about the twins’ early experiences. A similar sample of nontwin students who had taken the merit exam provided a comparison group. The questions investigated included how twins are similar to or different from nontwins, how identical twins are similar to or different from fraternal twins, how the personalities and interests of twins reflect genetic factors, how the personalities and interests of twins reflect early environmental factors, and what implications these questions have for the general issue of how heredity and environment influence the development of psychological characteristics. In attempting to answer these questions, the authors shed light on the importance of both genes and environment and form the basis for different approaches in behavior genetic research.

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Hidden Voices of the Land

Spirituality and the Environment in Africa

Edited by Anika Wilson

University of Wisconsin Press, 2027

This volume explores sacred sites in Africa and the ways that African knowledge has been and can be applied to mounting environmental issues. Together, the essays yield not a singular paradigm but rather an ethics of engagement common to the continent: a respect for the claims and rightful presence of nonhumans, a patience for unpredictability, and a sense of humility in decentering both humanity and Western knowledge. The contributions in this volume thus collectively move toward a record of African perspectives and experiences of the environment and the many roles played by nonhuman entities in a variety of African communities. As the contributors demonstrate, successfully accessing vernacular environmentalism in Africa requires acknowledging the complex interplay of agents, including spirits. Hidden Voices of the Land challenges scholars to take Indigenous African epistemologies, cosmologies, and spiritualities seriously in the context of ongoing ecological crises and the looming threat of global climate change.

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Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain

Edited by Jon Agar and Jacob Ward

University College London, 2018

Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a broad, multifaceted look at how technology and the environment have become intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last three hundred years. For the first time, the book brings together two perspectives with ample insights into the history of Britain since the Industrial Revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Both technologies and our living and nonliving environment comprise material forms of organization—or self-organization—and both have changed over time, sometimes in intersecting ways. Among the technologies discussed in the collection are bulldozers, submarine cables, automobiles, flood barriers, medical devices, museum displays, and biotechnologies. Environments discussed include both places of natural beauty and pollution, bogs, cities, farms, land, and sea. The book explores this diversity and offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections.
 
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How Green Were the Nazis?

Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich

Franz-Josef Brüggemeier

Ohio University Press, 2005

The Nazis created nature preserves, championed sustainable forestry, curbed air pollution, and designed the autobahn highway network as a way of bringing Germans closer to nature. How Green Were the Nazis?:Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich is the first book to examine the Third Reich’s environmental policies and to offer an in-depth exploration of the intersections between brown ideologies and green practices. Environmentalists and conservationists in Germany welcomed the rise of the Nazi regime with open arms and hoped that it would bring about legal and institutional changes. However, environmentalists soon realized that the rhetorical attention they received from the regime did not always translate into action. By the late 1930s, nature and the environment had become less pressing concerns as Nazi Germany prepared for and executed a global conflagration. Based on prodigious archival research, and written by some of the most important scholars in the field of twentieth-century German history, How Green Were the Nazis? examines the overlap between Nazi ideology and conservationist agendas. This landmark book underscores the fact that the “green” policies of the Nazis were more than a mere episode or aberration in environmental history. Contributors: Franz-Josef Brüggemeier, Mark Cioc, Thomas Zeller, Charles Closmann, Michael Imort, Thomas Lekan, Frank Uekötter, Gesine Gerhard, Thomas Rohkrämer, Mark Bassin, and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.
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How to Grow a Community

Kyle Lough

Michigan Publishing Services, 2023

This book was created for the course titled “Nature, Culture, & Landscape” taught by Professor Sara Adlerstein-Gonzalez at the University of Michigan School for Environment & Sustainability.

The objective was to create a book that uses the topic of urban gardening to teach young readers about the importance of environmental stewardship— respecting and caring for Earth and the diversity of life it sustains.

Through art and science, we can better understand complex environmental issues like access to food and water, loss of biodiversity, and land-use. Any reader, of any age, can make a difference in their community through forming stronger connections with people and the earth.
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