Descriere: This volume collects the research of today's scientists to explore the possibilities of the science of tomorrow. Among the issues covered are how decoding DNA will allow us to alter and reshape our genetic heritage, and how quantum physicists will harness the energy of the Universe.
Page dim. 200 x 130 x 23
Weight: 442 grams
Autori: Kaku Michio (Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics City College of New York) | Editura: Oxford University Press | Anul aparitiei: 1999 | ISBN: 9780192880185 | Numar de pagini: 416 | Categorie: Science
Matt Ridley
The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture
"Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balanced--witty, too. . . . A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience." -- Oliver Sacks 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 know that 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.