Denis R Alexander

Are We Slaves to Our Genes?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Genetic differences can influence differences in our human behaviours, but only occasionally undermine the reality of our free will.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 275
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 359g
• ISBN-13: 9781108445054
• ISBN-10: 1108445055
• Artikelnr.: 59509495

Autorenporträt

Denis Alexander is the Founding Director (Emeritus) of The Faraday Institute and Emeritus Fellow of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge. The former chair of the Molecular Immunology Programme at The Babraham Institute in Cambridge, he helped to establish the National Unit of Human Genetics at the American University Hospital in Beirut. Lebanon. He is the author of Genes, Determinism, and God (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Preface
1. Genetic Confusion
2. Genetic Information and How It Flows
3. Genes and Environments in Human Development
4. What is Behavioural Genetics?
5. Genes and Mental Health
6. Genes, Education and Intelligence
7. Genes, Personality and Personality Disorders
8. Genes, Food, Exercise, Fat and Thin
9. Genes, Religiosity and Political Commitment
10. Gay Genes? Genetics and Sexual Orientation
11. Are We Slaves to our Genes?
12. Genes and Human Identity
Endnotes
Definitions of Technical Terms
Bibliography
Index.