Agile Gene e-bog
97,26 DKK
(inkl. moms 121,58 DKK)
Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balancedwitty, too. . . . A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience.Oliver SacksArmed 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 b...
E-bog
97,26 DKK
Forlag
Harper Perennial
Udgivet
14 februar 2012
Længde
352 sider
Genrer
Anthropology
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780062200884
Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balancedwitty, too. . . . A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience.Oliver SacksArmed 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.