Population-genetics approach to the genetics of human behaviour

Invariant values of inheritance factors within and between different populations can show the existence of and measure the degree of genetic determination of behavioural characters. The absence of inbred depression of quantitative behavioural characters in isolated populations of highland inhabitants of Daghestan is demonstrated by means of comparative analysis of the mean population values of psychophysiological characters in outbred, moderately isolated, and extremely isolated (and inbred) populations. The absence of pronounced adverse effects of inbred marriages, known as the 'Daghestan phenomenon', is explained by the antiquity of the native populations and the severe ecological conditions under which these populations live which have led to elimination of carriers of hereditary diseases and other detrimental phenotypes.