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The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns On Nurture
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9780060006792
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
006000679X
ISBN-13
9780060006792
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038211541
Product Key Features
Book Title
Agile Gene : How Nature Turns on Nurture
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Social, Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Anthropology / General
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Philosophy, Social Science, Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-040687
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
I would never have expected a book about 'nature or nurture' to be even mildly interesting, let alone a real page-turner. But I had reckoned without Matt Ridley's gift for surprising the reader. What a superb writer he is, and he seems to get better and better., Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balanced--witty, too....A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience.
Dewey Decimal
155.7
Synopsis
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., "Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balanced--witty, too. . . . A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience." -- Oliver Sacks 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.
LC Classification Number
qh438.5r535
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