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| Title | : | DNA & Destiny: Nature & Nurture In Human Behavior |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.80 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0738206199 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
A perceptive examination of the on-going debate over the influence of genetics in our lives.
Alcoholism, he maintains, is a disease to which many people inherit a genetic susceptibility, although family environment plays a strong causative role. . His synthesis touches on many topics, from cognitive and emotional differences between men and women to transsexuality, eugenics, sociobiology and a reported link between attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and criminality. From Publishers Weekly In a useful, opinionated, accessible survey of the nature-versus-nurture controversy, Steen, a Tennessee medical researcher in brain physiology, argues that human behavior is roughly half the result of genes and half the result of the environment, with an ongoing interplay between the two forces. He finds the evidence of a genetic and hormonal basis for homosexuality to be fairly compelling. Steen defends intelligence tests as a measure of general problem-solving ability, but he attacks Richard Herrnstein's and Charles Murray's bestseller
Delivers Excellent look at the question of "Nature Versus Nurture In Human Behavior", assuming you like getting facts and percentages from good quantitative studies, and you'd also like to know why the studies were good, and you don't want any speculative unified theories. It rambles off the point from time to time, though I found it rambles fairly . Nothing new A Customer This book has nothing that I was looking forIt's not very well fundamented on scientific studies, nor it is a thourough study of what Nature (genes) and Nurture (environment, education) can influence you.It's just a fun reading for a weekend, nothing more.The author just finalizes by saying that it's not anyone's fault that they are what th
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