The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture

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Harper Collins, 14 ก.พ. 2012 - 352 หน้า

“Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balanced—witty, too. . . . A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience.” — Oliver Sacks

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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Twelve Hairy Men i
The Paragon of Animals 7
A Plethora of Instincts 38
A Convenient Jingle 69
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The Madness of Causes 98
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Genes in the Fourth
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Formative Years
151
Learning Lessons
177
Conundrums of Culture
201
The Seven Meanings
231
o A Budget of Paradoxical
249
Homo stramineus
277
Endnotes
283
Index
307
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The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture
Matt Ridley
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The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture
Matt Ridley
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Matt Ridley's books have sold over a million copies, been translated into 31 languages and won several awards. His books include The Red Queen, Genome, The Rational Optimist and The Evolution of Everything. His book on How Innovation Works was published in 2020, and Viral: the Search for the Origin of Covid-19, co-authored with Alina Chan, was published in 2021. He sat in the House of Lords between 2013 and 2021 and served on the science and technology select committee and the artificial intelligence select committee. He 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 2013-2018. 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. He lives in Northumberland.

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ชื่อหนังสือThe Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture
ผู้แต่งMatt Ridley
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ผู้จัดพิมพ์Harper Collins, 2012
ISBN0062200887, 9780062200884
ความยาว352 หน้า
  
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