Armed 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… (more)
Publisher: Harper Perennial (February 14, 2012)
Format: EPUB
Page count: 352 pages
File size: 694 KB
Protection: DRM
Language: English
We'd warn you not to try this at home, but these books invite you to do exactly that, in fascinating journeys from the origins of the universe to the...