The Agile Gene
Autor Matt Ridleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iul 2004
Armed 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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780060006792
ISBN-10: 006000679X
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:Perennial.
Editura: Harper Perennial
ISBN-10: 006000679X
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:Perennial.
Editura: Harper Perennial
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Armed 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.
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.
Recenzii
“Fascinating and important information from the world of science.” — New York Times Book Review
“Proposes a new way of looking at an ongoing debate.” — Washington Post Book World
“Matt Ridley breathes new life into the old debate of heredity versus environment. He deftly examines subjects as diverse as sexual identity, political theory, and psychotic behavior. This book will both edify and excite the intelligent reader.” — Jerome Groopman, M.D.
“An engrossing study of what makes us who we are … conveyed with insight and style.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“I would never have expected a book about ‘nature or nurture’ to be even mildly interesting, let alone a real page-turner. But I had reckoned without Matt Ridley’s gift for surprising the reader. What a superb writer he is, and he seems to get better and better.” — Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene
“Ridley is simply one of the best science writers in the business.” — Hartford Courant
“Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balanced--witty, too....A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience.” — Oliver Sacks
“Terrific popular science.” — Booklist (starred review)
“A delight. . . a rich overview and a compellingly integrated picture of a great deal of science, both old and new." — Nature
“Thoughtful and entertaining.” — Salon.com
“Ridley’s enthusiasm for his subject is contagious … He writes with panache, wit and humor and displays remarkable ingenuity in finding ways to present complicated materials for the lay reader.” — Los Angeles Times
“Proposes a new way of looking at an ongoing debate.” — Washington Post Book World
“Matt Ridley breathes new life into the old debate of heredity versus environment. He deftly examines subjects as diverse as sexual identity, political theory, and psychotic behavior. This book will both edify and excite the intelligent reader.” — Jerome Groopman, M.D.
“An engrossing study of what makes us who we are … conveyed with insight and style.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“I would never have expected a book about ‘nature or nurture’ to be even mildly interesting, let alone a real page-turner. But I had reckoned without Matt Ridley’s gift for surprising the reader. What a superb writer he is, and he seems to get better and better.” — Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene
“Ridley is simply one of the best science writers in the business.” — Hartford Courant
“Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balanced--witty, too....A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience.” — Oliver Sacks
“Terrific popular science.” — Booklist (starred review)
“A delight. . . a rich overview and a compellingly integrated picture of a great deal of science, both old and new." — Nature
“Thoughtful and entertaining.” — Salon.com
“Ridley’s enthusiasm for his subject is contagious … He writes with panache, wit and humor and displays remarkable ingenuity in finding ways to present complicated materials for the lay reader.” — Los Angeles Times
Notă biografică
Matt Ridley's books-including The Red Queen, Genome, The Rational Optimist, The Evolution of Everything, How Innovation Works, and most recently, Viral: the Search for the Origin of Covid-19 (with Alina Chan)-have sold over a million copies, been translated into thirty-one languages, and won awards. He was a member of the House of Lords from 2013 to 2021 and was founding chairman of the International Centre for Life in Newcastle. He created the "Mind and Matter" column in The Wall Street Journal in 2010 and was a columnist for The Times. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ridley lives in Northumberland, UK.