Nature via Nurture (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Matt Ridley
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
- Subjects: Language or languages, Science or scientists, Mental illness, Genetics, Environment or environmental health, Animals, Heredity, Apes, Evolution, Biology or biologists, Ethnology, Primates, Life sciences
Through much of the twentieth century, biologists and social scientists debated whether human behavior was governed primarily by inherited characteristics or by the environment in which a person grew up. Biologists stressed the role of genes in controlling the development of living things, while psychologists and sociologists investigated the impact of subjective experience and the social milieu upon individuals. Each discipline found convincing evidence for its view and concluded that the other approach was mistaken.
Matt Ridley objects to this either/or dichotomy and argues...
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