DNA and Destiny: Nature and Nurture in Human Behavior

by R. Grant Steen

The Bell Curve has sparked a fiery debate over the origins of human intelligence and the roots of human behavior. Does nature determine intelligence so completely that we should give up on the disadvantaged? Or can intelligence and positive human behavior be fostered by intellectual nourishment and emotional support? In short, to what degree is DNA our destiny? Dr. Grant Steen - popular science writer and respected medical researcher - has drawn together...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738206199
• ISBN13: 9780738206196
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"

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Excellent look at the question of "Nature Versus Nurture In Human Behavior", assuming you like getting facts and percentages from good quantitative studies, and you'd also like to know why the studies were good, and you don't want any speculative unified theories. It rambles off the point from time to time, though I found it rambles fairly engagingly myself. My favorite item in the book is about schizophrenia in identical twins. If one identical twin has it, the chances the other has it are around 1 in 3. When one with and one without the disease are looked at with magnetic resonance imaging it can be seen that their brains are significantly different in structure and function.