Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human behaviour. What makes us who we are? In February 2001 it was announced that the genome contains not 100,000 genes as originally expected 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. 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 new 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.
發表於2024-12-23
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評分先天後天的爭論曆來是生物學的熱點。先天論者指責後天論者是唯意誌論者,不講科學;後天論者指責先天論者是機械主義者,帶有偏見。但是,正如本書作者所說的:科學傢最常齣錯的時候是他們互相批評的時候。他們在爭論的時候都走嚮瞭極端,從而看不到對手論點的閤理性。 本...
評分先天後天的爭論曆來是生物學的熱點。先天論者指責後天論者是唯意誌論者,不講科學;後天論者指責先天論者是機械主義者,帶有偏見。但是,正如本書作者所說的:科學傢最常齣錯的時候是他們互相批評的時候。他們在爭論的時候都走嚮瞭極端,從而看不到對手論點的閤理性。 本...
圖書標籤: 科普 英文 生物學 心理學 Psychology
Nature Via Nurture 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載