Posted on 17/05/03
A genetic truce
Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, & What Makes Us HumanBy Matt RidleyHarper Collins,326 pages, $36.95Here's a recent headline and subhead from a Toronto newspaper: "Are humans hard-wired to behave aggressively? Y chromosome could be the culprit in war." Like all of us, the British biologist and popular-science writer Matt Ridley has heard such pseudo-explanatory claptrap too often, hence Nature via Nurture, his attempt to explain why recent discoveries in the life sciences tell us as much about how experience shapes us as about genetic influences.
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