Agile Gene How Nature Turns on Nurture

Name: Agile Gene How Nature Turns on Nurture
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ISBN: 9780060006792

ISBN-10: 006000679X

ISBN-13: 9780060006792

Edition: 2003

Authors: Matt Ridley

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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.

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/6/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



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


Acknowledgments


Endnotes


Index