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Making Sense of Heritability
Neven Sesardic defends the view that it is both possible and useful to measure the separate contributions of heredity and environment to the explanation of human psychological differences. He critically examines the view--very widely accepted by scientists, social scientists and philosophers of science--that heritability estimates have no causal implications and are devoid
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Hardcover, 267 pages
Published
April 9th 2015
by Cambridge University Press
(first published January 1st 2005)
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Hmmm... it grew on me. Good book.
When I started reading this book I though it was writing by a geneticist on genetics - it is not about genetics. It is about terrible popular scientist writers/philosophers talking about things they know basically nothing about. So, why do you want to read about terrible "scientists" like Gould and Lewontin (again, again) making things up or calling others scientists racist to win an argument? Well, I think the it is important to be reminded about the current sta ...more
When I started reading this book I though it was writing by a geneticist on genetics - it is not about genetics. It is about terrible popular scientist writers/philosophers talking about things they know basically nothing about. So, why do you want to read about terrible "scientists" like Gould and Lewontin (again, again) making things up or calling others scientists racist to win an argument? Well, I think the it is important to be reminded about the current sta ...more
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