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The Agile Gene : How Nature Turns on Nurture by Matt Ridley is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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“Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balanced—witty, too.... A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience.” — Oliver SacksArmed 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.

Who reads The Agile Gene : How Nature Turns on Nurture?

Author

Matt Ridley

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062200884

Category

science

Subjects

Psychology, Anthropology, Physics

Rating

4.03 / 5 (406 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13