Full name: Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human

Author: Matt Ridley Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads

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. Similar books: Genome by Matt Ridley The Language of the Genes by Steve Jones Y: The Descent of Men by Steve Jones Adam's Curse by Bryan Sykes 50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Mark Henderson River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins Mutants by Armand Marie Leroi The Book of Humans by Adam Rutherford The Making of the Fittest by Sean B. Carroll The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins The Tangled Tree by David Quammen The Red Queen by Matt Ridley Evolution by James A. Shapiro A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford