Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate? - Couverture souple

Lock, Margaret M.; Palsson, Gisli

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745689973 ISBN 13 : 9780745689975

Editeur : Polity Press, 2016

Synopsis

Following centuries of debate about "nature and nurture" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.

Since the 1950s, the new science of epigenetics has demonstrated how cellular environments and certain experiences and behaviors influence gene expression at the molecular level, with significant implications for health and wellbeing. To the amazement of scientists, mapping the human genome indirectly supported these insights. Anthropologists Margaret Lock and Gisli Palsson outline vituperative arguments from Classical times about the relationship between nature and nurture, furthered today by epigenetic findings and the demonstration of a "reactive genome." The nature/nurture debate, they show, can never be put to rest, because these concepts are in constant flux in response to the new insights science continually offers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Margaret Lock is Marjorie Bronfman Professor Emerita in Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University

Gisli Palsson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745689973
• ISBN 13: 9780745689975
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
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