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012973
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New York, Harper Perennial, 2006.
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viii, 344pBlack Spine
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The mapping of the human genome has enormous implications on issues like longevity, eugenics, disease and gene therapy. Ridley recounts the history of our species from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine and probes the scientific, moral and philosophical issues arising as a result of the mapping of the genome.
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Life
Species
History
Fate
Environment
Intelligence
Instinct
Conflict
Self-interest
Disease
Stress
Personality
Self-assembly
Pre-history
Immortality
Sex
Memory
Death
Cures
Prevention
Politics
Eugenics
Free will
Bibliography and notes
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9780060894085 Pb.
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| I00535 | 599.935/RID | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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019487
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New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2003.
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326pGreen spine
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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."--BOOK JACKET. "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.
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978-0965804851 Hb.
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019198
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London, Penguin, 1997.
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viii, 295pOrange spine
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The Origins of Virtue searches for the roots of that capacity for trust, contrasts it with the social instincts of ants, baboons, and naked mole rats, and draws provocative conclusions for our understanding of politics. Ridley not only traces the evolution of society but shows us how breakthroughs in computer programming, microbiology, and economics have all played their role in providing us with a unique perspective on how and why we relate to each other.
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9780140244045 Pb.
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