Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate? (New Human Frontiers) - Softcover

Lock, Margaret M.; Palsson, Gisli

 
9780745689975: Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate? (New Human Frontiers)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0745689973 ISBN 13: 9780745689975
Verlag: Polity Press, 2016

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Following centuries of debate about "nature and nurture" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.

Since the 1950s, the new science of epigenetics has demonstrated how cellular environments and certain experiences and behaviors influence gene expression at the molecular level, with significant implications for health and wellbeing. To the amazement of scientists, mapping the human genome indirectly supported these insights. Anthropologists Margaret Lock and Gisli Palsson outline vituperative arguments from Classical times about the relationship between nature and nurture, furthered today by epigenetic findings and the demonstration of a "reactive genome." The nature/nurture debate, they show, can never be put to rest, because these concepts are in constant flux in response to the new insights science continually offers.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Margaret Lock is Marjorie Bronfman Professor Emerita in Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University

Gisli Palsson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland

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Verlag
Polity Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0745689973
ISBN 13 
9780745689975
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Anzahl der Seiten
160
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