Neven Sesardic

Making Sense of Heritability

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Produktbeschreibung

A fresh compelling 2005 intervention in a very contentious heritability debate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9780521828185
• ISBN-10: 052182818X
• Artikelnr.: 22427392

Autorenporträt

Neven Sesardic is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His areas of specialisation are philosophy of biology, philosophy of science and philosophy of mind.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The nature-nurture debate: a premature burial?
2. A tangle of interactions: separating genetic and environmental influences
3. Lost in correlations? Direct and indirect genetic causes
4. From individuals to groups: genetics and race
5. Genes and malleability
6. Science and sensitivity
7. Conclusions.