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The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research Jonathan Michael Kaplan

The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research By Jonathan Michael Kaplan

The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research by Jonathan Michael Kaplan


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Jonathan Kaplan weighs the evidence for genetic determinism of such human traits as intelligence, depression, homosexuality and violence, and argues that neither genes nor the environment alone can explain the complex variations amongst humans.

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The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research: Dangers For Social Policy by Jonathan Michael Kaplan

In The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research, Jonathan Kaplan weighs in on the controversial subject of the roles genes play in determining aspects of physical and behavioral human variation. Limits and Lies makes the case that neither the information we have on genes, nor on the environment, is sufficient to explain the complex variations among humans.

About Jonathan Michael Kaplan

Jonathan Michael Kaplan

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Explaining Differences; Chapter 2 Varieties of Determinism; Chapter 3 Genes and Causation; Chapter 4 IQ and Social Policy; Chapter 5 Criminality and Violence; Chapter 6 Gay Genes and the Reification of Homosexuality; Chapter 7 On the Medicalization of Mood-Affective Disorders; Chapter 8 Born to be Fat? Culture and the Meaning of Weight; Chapter 9 Contract Pregnancies and Genetic Parenthood; Chapter 10 The Concept of the Environment;

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NPB9780415926379
9780415926379
0415926378
The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research: Dangers For Social Policy by Jonathan Michael Kaplan
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2000-07-06
236
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