The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture Paperback - 2004
by Matt Ridley
The bestselling author of "Genome" chronicles a new revolution in the world'sunderstanding of genes.
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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.
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- Title The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture
- Author Matt Ridley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date 2004-07-06
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780060006792 / 006000679X
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.24 x 0.86 in (20.27 x 13.31 x 2.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Nature and nurture, Human genetics
- Dewey Decimal Code 155.7
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- Scitech Book News, 12/01/2004, Page 150
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