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portada genetic explanations
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Physical Book
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Language
English
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.6 x 16.3 x 2.8 cm
Weight
0.68 kg.
ISBN
0674064461
ISBN13
9780674064461
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genetic explanations

Sheldon Krimsky (Illustrated by) · Jeremy Gruber (Illustrated by) · Jon Beckwith (Contributions by) · Harvard University Press · Hardcover

genetic explanations - Krimsky, Sheldon ; Gruber, Jeremy ; Beckwith, Jon

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Synopsis "genetic explanations"

Can genes determine which fifty-year-old will succumb to Alzheimer's, which citizen will turn out on voting day, and which child will be marked for a life of crime? Yes, according to the Internet, a few scientific studies, and some in the biotechnology industry who should know better. Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber gather a team of genetic experts to argue that treating genes as the holy grail of our physical being is a patently unscientific endeavor. Genetic Explanations urges us to replace our faith in genetic determinism with scientific knowledge about how DNA actually contributes to human development.The concept of the gene has been steadily revised since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. No longer viewed by scientists as the cell's fixed set of master molecules, genes and DNA are seen as a dynamic script that is ad-libbed at each stage of development. Rather than an autonomous predictor of disease, the DNA we inherit interacts continuously with the environment and functions differently as we age. What our parents hand down to us is just the beginning. Emphasizing relatively new understandings of genetic plasticity and epigenetic inheritance, the authors put into a broad developmental context the role genes are known to play in disease, behavior, evolution, and cognition.Rather than dismissing genetic reductionism out of hand, Krimsky and Gruber ask why it persists despite opposing scientific evidence, how it influences attitudes about human behavior, and how it figures in the politics of research funding.

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