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The Agile Gene

By Matt Ridley

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The Agile Gene

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"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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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2004-07-06
Publication Date:
2004-07-06
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
006000679X
ISBN13:
9780060006792
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
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Weight:
497 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
21 cm

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