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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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"Co-Winner of the 2018 Best Book Award, Evolution, Biology, and Society Section, American Sociological Association" "Winner of the 2018 Otis Dudley Duncan Award, Section on Population of the American Sociological Association" Dalton Conley is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. His many books include Parentology: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Science of Raising Children but Were Too Exhausted to Ask....
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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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...
5. Innate
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Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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"One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2018" "One of Forbes' Must-Read Brain Books of 2018" Kevin J. Mitchell is associate professor at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics and the Institute of Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He contributed to The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists (Princeton) and runs a popular blog, Wiring the Brain. He lives in Portmarnock, Ireland. A leading neuroscientist explains why...