Nature Via Nurture

出版者:HarperCollins

作者:Matt Ridley

页数:326

出版时间:2003-05-01

价格:USD 25.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780060006785

图书标签:科普心理学MattRidley科学EpigeneticsEnglish进化心理学行为遗传学

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. </p>

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. </p>

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. </p>

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里德利提到当初的先天后天的历史上的争论，很是有意思。比如当初认为基因才3万而不是估计的10万，所以基因决定小，从而认为后天环境更重要，以及后来发现人类和猿类基因差异很小，认为是这些微小的差异造成了人猿的差别。这些想法显然都是太草率，但也说明这样一个问题：在一个...  

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至今读过的Matt Ridley的书，趣味性、知识性、文字性和启发性都非常高。不过他有时会有过多阐述政治观点的倾向。

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