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Nature versus nurture is a long-standing debate in biology and society about the relative influence on human beings of their genetic inheritance (nature) and the environmental conditions of their development (nurture). The alliterative expression "nature and nurture" in English has been in use since at least the Elizabethan period [1] and goes ...
He coined the phrase "nature versus nurture". [3] His book Hereditary Genius (1869) was the first social scientific attempt to study genius and greatness. [4] As an investigator of the human mind, he founded psychometrics and differential psychology, as well as the lexical hypothesis of personality.
Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature is a 1984 book by the evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin, the neurobiologist Steven Rose, and the psychologist Leon Kamin, in which the authors criticize sociobiology and genetic determinism and advocate a socialist society. Its themes include the relationship between biology and ...
Tabula rasa. Tabula rasa (/ ˈtæbjələ ˈrɑːsə, - zə, ˈreɪ -/; Latin for "blank slate") is the idea of individuals being born empty of any built-in mental content, so that all knowledge comes from later perceptions or sensory experiences. Proponents typically form the extreme "nurture" side of the nature versus nurture debate, arguing ...
978-0-7167-4024-7. The Dependent Gene: The Fallacy of "Nature vs. Nurture" is a book by developmental psychologist David S. Moore, originally published in 2002 by Times Books and Henry Holt & Company. The book is highly critical of genetic determinism and the nature-nurture debate, emphasizing that gene action is highly dependent on social and ...
Specifically, researchers and theorists take different perspectives on how much of gender is due to biological, neurochemical, and evolutionary factors (nature), or is the result of culture and socialization (nurture). This is known as the nature versus nurture debate.
Publication date. June 2010. Pages. 107. ISBN. 978-0-8223-4731-6. The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture is a book by Evelyn Fox Keller, an American historian of science, about the nature–nurture debate. It was first published in June 2010 by Duke University Press. [1] The book is unusually short, as it is a mere 107 pages long.
Nature versus nurture – Debate about heredity and environment as determinants of physical or mental development; Adaptive bias – Theory of bias in human reasoning; Cultural selection theory – Study of cultural change modelled on theories of evolutionary biology; Memetics – Study of self-replicating units of culture