Nature Via Nurture : Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human
by Ridley, Matt
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060006781
- ISBN 13
- 9780060006785
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About This Item
New York: HarperCollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (2003). First Edition. Hardcover. 0060006781 . No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. [x], 326 pages. Green boards with red spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 227 x 150mm. "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 will.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." - Washington Post Book World. .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24972
- Title
- Nature Via Nurture : Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human
- Author
- Ridley, Matt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060006781
- ISBN 13
- 9780060006785
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (2003)
- Keywords
- 0060006781
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