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THE inheritance of some simple behavioural traits, according to Scott and Fuller, can be explained on the basis of one or two genes1. Hirsch has suggested that it is impossible to study the genetics of a behaviour and that only the genetics of a population can be analysed, on the grounds that the relation between behavioural variation and relevant genetic variation is never constant2. We believe that “fixed action patterns” (Erbkoordination3) of behaviour are accessible to genetic analysis if genetic differences are demonstrable for the parameters of those behaviours in the parents.
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MCGRATH, T., SHALTER, M., SCHLEIDT, W. et al. Analysis of Distress Calls of Chicken × Pheasant Hybrids. Nature 237, 47–48 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/237047a0
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