The intelligent genome : on the origin of the human mind by mutation and selection / Adolf Heschl ; with drawings by Herbert Loserl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heschl, Adolf, 1959-

Contributor:

Louis B. Flexner Medical Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Intelligente Genom. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Intellect--Genetic aspects.

Intellect.

Brain--Evolution.

Brain.

Genetic psychology.

Behavior genetics.

Physical Description:

362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2002]

Summary:

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 doing so, he creates an image of human evolution that says that our entire individual knowledge is determined - to the smallest detail - by phylogeny." ... before shocked humanists discard such radical theses as mere nonsense, they should not completely close their minds to the explanations of a biologist who says that we still know very little about the genetic determination of human behavior and that the invariance of many forms of behavior present in all cultures nourish the suspicion that the determining role of genes is probably far more comprehensive than we have ever dreamed." "Wolfgang Wieser, translated from his review in "Merkur"" "(Sept./Oct. 1999)"

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [316]-350) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis B. Flexner Medical Book Fund.

ISBN:

3540671668

OCLC:

47805066