Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human behaviour. What makes us who we are? In February 2001 it was announced that the genome contains not 100,000 genes as originally expected but only 30,000. This startling revision led some scientists to conclude that there are simply not enough human genes to account for all the different ways people behave: we must be made by nurture, not nature. Matt Ridley argues that the emerging truth is far more interesting than this myth. Nurture depends on genes, too, and genes need nurture. Genes not only predetermine the broad structure of the brain; they also absorb formative experiences, react to social cues and even run memory. They are consequences as well as causes of the will. Published fifty years after the discovery of the double helix of DNA, Nature via Nurture chronicles a new revolution in our understanding of genes. 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. Nature via Nurture is an enthralling, up-to-the-minute account of how genes build brains to absorb experience.
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先天后天这本书人让我整个人的思路不是一点半点的受到冲击，一开始我觉得像这样的问题就像争论一些有争议的政治问题一样人不会脱离自己的名族和立场去看待，所以简直想想就觉得理不清楚。 真的往下看下去时，心里产生了一种奇怪的想法，欸？这不是有一种机器人读《微机原理》...
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評分 評分《先天后天》里提到了一个有意思的观点，即关于语言起源的手势假说。在我们的大脑中，控制模仿能力、说话能力和动手灵巧程度的是在同一个区域，也有很多科学实验都证明了人手与人脑的相关程度。考古学的证据显示人类开口说话是相当晚近的事情，在此之前就已经有了一定程度的文...
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