The Resource Nature via nurture : genes, experience, and what makes us human, Matt Ridley
Nature via nurture : genes, experience, and what makes us human, Matt Ridley
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- Summary
- Publisher's description: Following his highly praised and bestselling book Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Matt Ridley has written a brilliant and profound book about the roots of human behavior. Nature via Nurture explores the complex and endlessly intriguing question of what makes us who we are. In February 2001 it was announced that the human genome contains not 100,000 genes, as originally postulated, 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 ill. Published fifty years after the discovery of the double helix of DNA, Nature via Nurture chronicles a revolution in our understanding of genes. 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. Nature via Nurture is an enthralling, up-to-the-minute account of how genes build brains to absorb experience
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 326 p.;
- Contents
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- Prologue: Twelve hairy men
- The paragon of animals
- A plethora of instincts
- A convenient jingle
- The madness of causes
- Genes in the fourth dimension
- Formative years
- Learning lessons
- Conundrums of culture
- The seven meanings of "gene"
- A budget of paradoxical morals
- Epilogue: Homo stramineus : the straw man
- Isbn
- 9780060006785
- Label
- Nature via nurture : genes, experience, and what makes us human
- Title
- Nature via nurture
- Title remainder
- genes, experience, and what makes us human
- Statement of responsibility
- Matt Ridley
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Publisher's description: Following his highly praised and bestselling book Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Matt Ridley has written a brilliant and profound book about the roots of human behavior. Nature via Nurture explores the complex and endlessly intriguing question of what makes us who we are. In February 2001 it was announced that the human genome contains not 100,000 genes, as originally postulated, 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 ill. Published fifty years after the discovery of the double helix of DNA, Nature via Nurture chronicles a revolution in our understanding of genes. 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. Nature via Nurture is an enthralling, up-to-the-minute account of how genes build brains to absorb experience
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ridley, Matt
- Dewey number
- 155.7
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QH438.5
- LC item number
- .R535 2003
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Nature and nurture
- Human genetics
- Génétique du comportement
- Génétique humaine
- Hérédité et milieu
- Human genetics
- Nature and nurture
- Erfelijkheid en omgeving
- Gedragsgenetica
- Genomica
- Genética do comportamento
- Naturaleza y nutrición
- Genética humana
- Genetics
- Label
- Nature via nurture : genes, experience, and what makes us human, Matt Ridley
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- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-306)
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- txt
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- Contents
- Prologue: Twelve hairy men -- The paragon of animals -- A plethora of instincts -- A convenient jingle -- The madness of causes -- Genes in the fourth dimension -- Formative years -- Learning lessons -- Conundrums of culture -- The seven meanings of "gene" -- A budget of paradoxical morals -- Epilogue: Homo stramineus : the straw man
- Control code
- ocm51553398
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 326 p.;
- Isbn
- 9780060006785
- Lccn
- 2003040687
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- (Sirsi) o51553398
- (OCoLC)51553398
- Label
- Nature via nurture : genes, experience, and what makes us human, Matt Ridley
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-306)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: Twelve hairy men -- The paragon of animals -- A plethora of instincts -- A convenient jingle -- The madness of causes -- Genes in the fourth dimension -- Formative years -- Learning lessons -- Conundrums of culture -- The seven meanings of "gene" -- A budget of paradoxical morals -- Epilogue: Homo stramineus : the straw man
- Control code
- ocm51553398
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 326 p.;
- Isbn
- 9780060006785
- Lccn
- 2003040687
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o51553398
- (OCoLC)51553398
Subject
- Erfelijkheid en omgeving
- Gedragsgenetica
- Genetics
- Genomica
- Genética do comportamento
- Genética humana
- Génétique du comportement
- Annotations (Provenance) -- 20th century
- Human genetics
- Human genetics
- Hérédité et milieu
- Naturaleza y nutrición
- Nature and nurture
- Nature and nurture
- Génétique humaine
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