Ridley, Matt.

Nature via nurture : genes, experience and what makes us human / Matt Ridley. - London : HarperPerennial, 2004. - 328 p. : port. ; 20 cm.

Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This title chronicles a revolution in our understanding of genes. Matt 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.

9781841157467 (pbk.) : £8.99


Behavior genetics--Popular works.
Human behavior--Popular works.
Nature and nurture--Popular works.
Behavior evolution--Popular works.
Sociobiology--Popular works.
Society.