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Adoption studies are cited in the discussions of schizophrenia alcoholism and criminality Children of non-criminal fathers adopted by criminal or non-criminal stepfathers produce an average crime rate But an adoptee whose biological father was a criminal will be more likely to grow up a crook especially if his adoptive father is one as well The psychosocial background of the alcoholic once believed to figure prominently in his illness may have less importance than the presence in his body of an enzyme genetically transmitted which degrades alcohol to a pleasant morphine-like substance Applewhite writes energetically but unevenly sometimes serving the information straight at other times lapsing into condescension (as when he labels the bibliography and Articles that Helped in Writing this Moreover he lacks the breadth of learning and rich use of metaphor so evident in the popular science works of George Gamov Carl Sagan or Robert Jastrow Be that as it may the subject matter alone of Molecular Gods new perspectives on the science of human behavior makes it worth reading Joel Grossman is a Miami THE FAN (5:45 (a) $175) 8:00 TAKE THIS JOB ANO SHOVE IT fl (6 0051 SI 751 8 15 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME 6 00 5 SI 75) 8 30 Molecular Gods describes the myriad ways in which the molecules under the direction of its gfnes determine human behavior Biologist Philip Applewhite does riot dismiss altogether the role of external forces such as childhood experience or culture in personality development He does however contend that these forces are too ethereal to be replicated and measured in controlled experiments Recent evidence which points to a chemical basis for much behavior makes it tempting to discard the concept of a mind-body duality and throw in with the sociobiologists who say it is all in the genes Apple-white tries to balance the equation tHusly: 100 per cent Behavior equals per cent Genes plus per cent Enviromental Influence plus per cent Chance Yet his book with its emphasis on factor must give worry to theologians social workers and the like whose supplications no matter how fervent cannot in any way be heard by the genetic encoder the famous DNA nTolocule Certain of our actions are as unalterable as the color of our eyes I The latest research findings about behavior as unrelated as altruism overeating and crimes against property are reviewed We learn that happiness thought by ntany to be a warm puppy may actually be a function of how many eiidorphin molecules naturally-occurring opiates are present in certain brain centers The maternal irrstinct? 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