Highly coordinated children are picked out at an early age by coaches and given special opportunities to excel at sports. Extraverted children seek out social situations and become unusually comfortable with strangers. Both of these phenomena illustrate
A) how the environment shapes one's genetic endowment.
B) genotype-environment correlations.
C) the polygenic effect of chromosomes on behavior.
D) the power of the phenotype over the genotype.

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These phenomena illustrate genotype-environment correlations, where an individual's genetic predispositions influence the environment they are exposed to, such as coordinated children being given opportunities in sports or extraverted children seeking social interactions.

Highly Coordinated Children Are Picked Out at an Early Age