Eric Turkheimer

Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how natural science can be applied to human beings, yet simultaneously how humans remain free of strict determination by biology. Ideal for students and researchers, and anyone who has ever wondered how to reconcile human freedom and self-determination with the biological facts of evolution and genetics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108958165
• ISBN-10: 1108958168
• Artikelnr.: 70945154

Autorenporträt

Eric Turkheimer is a Clinical Psychologist and the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Eric studies how interactions between genes and environments shape the development of human behaviour and has explored the scientific and philosophical basis of the nature-nurture debate for thirty-eight years. He is a past president of the Behavior Genetics Association (2012), a winner of the James Shields Award for Twin Research (2009), and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Genesis: why do we care about Nature-Nurture?
2. The worst legacy of Francis Galton
3. Statistical science and the invention of heritability
4. Reports of Galton's death are greatly exaggerated
5. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis
6. Plomin's predictions and the human genome project
7. GWAS unchained, GWAS unwound
8. Intelligence
9. IQ, race and genetics
10. Nature-Nurture and the possibility of human science
Summary of common misunderstandings
References
Figure credits
Index.