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This book is a masterful guide to human development that redefines the nature versus nurture debate. A much-needed antidote to genetic determinism, The Dependent Gene reveals how all traits -- even characteristics like eye and hair color -- are caused by complex interactions between genes and the environment at every stage of biological and psychological development, from the single fertilized egg to full-grown adulthood. How we understand the nature versus nurture debate directly affects our thoughts about such basic issues as sex and reproduction, parenting, education, and crime, and has an enormous impact on social policy. With life-and-death questions in the balance surrounding stem-cell research, cloning, and DNA fingerprinting, we can no longer afford to be ignorant of human development. An enlightening guide to this brave new world, The Dependent Gene empowers us to take control of our own destiny. - Publisher.
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The Dependent Gene: The Fallacy of "Nature vs. Nurture"
February 5, 2003, Owl Books
Paperback
in English
0805072802 9780805072808
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The Dependent Gene: The Fallacy of "Nature vs. Nurture"
January 16, 2002, A W. H. Freeman book, Times Books, Henry Holt and Co., Times Books
Hardcover
in English
- Lst ed. edition
0716740249 9780716740247
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"Nearly every day at the beginning of this new millennium,we are encountering news reports of the discovery of the gene "for" some human trait or illness."
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