Nature Via Nurture Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human

Name: Nature Via Nurture Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human
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ISBN: 9780060006785

ISBN-10: 0060006781

ISBN-13: 9780060006785

Edition: 2003

Authors: Matt Ridley

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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…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/29/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.342
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