David C. Rowe

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1949 – 2003

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Who was David C. Rowe?

David C. Rowe was an American psychology professor known for his work studying genetic and environmental influences on adolescent onset behaviors such as delinquency and smoking.

Rowe earned his A.B. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Rowe was well known for his work on the genes and the environment: how they interact, what the limits of environment and genes might be, and what mechanisms implement these effects. He also focussed on articulating the different realms of the social environment: shared in families, unique to individuals, neighbourhood or nation level social and cultural effects. His book The Limits of Family Influence: Genes, Experience and Behaviour brought together much of this work.

This work led to several substantive findings on shared and nonshared environmental influences; seminal work on the heritability of parenting behaviors; on the heritability of antisocial behavior; race differences and their causes; for testing the interaction of education, and social class with genes in the development of intelligence; and for blending behavioral and molecular genetics. He made several methodological contributions, including work on modeling of means and covariances with raw data, the utility of the DeFries-Fulker Analysis, and measured genes and environmental influences. The Add Health data featured in much of his research, and he served as the main geneticist on this large and influential survey of over 90,000 adolescents across the United States.

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Born
Sep 27, 1949
United States of America
Also known as
  • David Rowe
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Harvard University
  • University of Colorado Boulder
Lived in
  • United States of America
Died
Feb 2, 2003

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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