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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評分《先天後天》裏提到瞭一個有意思的觀點,即關於語言起源的手勢假說。在我們的大腦中,控製模仿能力、說話能力和動手靈巧程度的是在同一個區域,也有很多科學實驗都證明瞭人手與人腦的相關程度。考古學的證據顯示人類開口說話是相當晚近的事情,在此之前就已經有瞭一定程度的文...
評分《先天後天》裏提到瞭一個有意思的觀點,即關於語言起源的手勢假說。在我們的大腦中,控製模仿能力、說話能力和動手靈巧程度的是在同一個區域,也有很多科學實驗都證明瞭人手與人腦的相關程度。考古學的證據顯示人類開口說話是相當晚近的事情,在此之前就已經有瞭一定程度的文...
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評分至今讀過的Matt Ridley的書,趣味性、知識性、文字性和啓發性都非常高。不過他有時會有過多闡述政治觀點的傾嚮。
評分怎麼能辣麼有趣!無論專業相不相關都推薦一讀。貌似有中譯本,雖然沒讀過。。
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評分怎麼能辣麼有趣!無論專業相不相關都推薦一讀。貌似有中譯本,雖然沒讀過。。
Nature Via Nurture 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載