The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture
Armed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the nature-versus-nurture debate in a thoughtful book about the roots of human behavior. Ridley recounts the hundred years' war between the partisans of nature and nurture to...
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Armed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the nature-versus-nurture debate in a thoughtful book about the roots of human behavior. Ridley recounts the hundred years' war between the partisans of nature and nurture to explain how this paradoxical creature, the human being, can be simultaneously free-willed and motivated by instinct and culture. With the decoding of the human genome, we now know that genes not only predetermine the broad structure of the brain, they also absorb formative experiences, react to social cues, and even run memory. They are consequences as well as causes of the will.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060006792 (006000679X)
ASIN: 006000679X
Publish date: July 6th 2004
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Temas muy interesantes de genética. Me agradó el mensaje de que el eterno debate entre ambiente y genes es inútil, aunque quiza no debió ser tan reiterativo.