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The Intelligent Genome : On the Origin of the Human Mind by Mutation and Selection /

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Do our genes determine our behavior? Do education and environment have any influence at all? Do humans occupy a unique position in evolution? To clarify these provoking questions, the author takes the reader on an ambitious and entertaining journey through a variety of scientific disciplines. In doi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heschl, Adolf
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2002.
Subjects:
Life sciences.
Human genetics.
Zoology.
Anthropology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Nature Explains Nurture
  • The Myth of a Wonder of Nature
  • Evolutionary Epistemology or the Difficulties of Getting Started
  • To Be or Not To Be
  • Chance as Necessity
  • The Indivisible Individual
  • L = C (L ... Life, C ... Cognition)
  • The Reformulation of the Central Dogma
  • Learning: Appearances Are Deceptive
  • Edelman's Errors
  • On the Heritability of Jazzophilia
  • A Superfluous Law of Evolution
  • The "Wonder of Language"
  • Intelligent Sex
  • How to Explain Consciousness
  • The True Nature of Scientific Revolutions
  • Evolution Has Us in Its Grip
  • The Survival of the Most Intelligent
  • The Cultural Struggle of Genes
  • Requiem for a Wonder of Nature.