Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human - Couverture rigide

Ridley, Matt

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1841157457 ISBN 13 : 9781841157450

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

What makes us who we are? In February 2001 it was announced that the genome contains not 100,000 genes as originally expected but only 30,000. This startling revision led some scientists to conclude that there are simply not enough human genes to account for all the different ways people behave: we must be made by nurture, not nature. Yet again biology was to be stretched on the Procrustean bed of the nature-nurture debate. Matt Ridley argues that the emerging truth is far more interesting than this myth. Nurture depends on genes, too, and genes need nurture. 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. Published 50 years after the discovery of the double helix of DNA, "Nature via Nurture" chronicles a revolution in our understanding of genes. Ridley recounts the 100 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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Matt Ridley received his BA and D Phil at Oxford researching the evolution of behaviour. He has been science editor, Washington correspondent and American editor of The Economist. He has a regular column in the Daily Telegraph. He is also the author of The Red Queen (1993), The Origins of Virtue (1996) and Genome (1999). Matt Ridley is currently the chairman of The International Centre for Life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1841157457
• ISBN 13: 9781841157450
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 336
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