Living with Our Genes: The Groundbreaking Book about the Science of Personality, Behavior, and Genetic Destiny
Autor Dean Hamer, Peter Copelanden Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 1999
Nowhere is the nature-nurture controversy being more arduously tested than in the labs of world-renowned molecular geneticist Dean Hamer, whose cutting-edge discoveries of specific genes linked to behavioral traits -- such as anxiety, thrill-seeking, and homosexuality -- prove without a doubt that we are in large part hardwired to behave the way we do. Hamer is one of a small group of researchers mapping the human personality, and his findings help, in part, to explain why one brother becomes a Wall Street trader while his sibling remains content as a librarian; why some people like to bungee-jump while others play Scrabble.
"Living With Our Genes" helps readers understand their particular genetic makeup and decipher the mysteries of genetically inherited behavioral traits. Hamer shows that much of our behavior -- how much we eat, weigh, drink, use drugs, and have sex -- is heavily influenced by genes. He also sheds light on some of the most compelling and vexing aspects of personality, such as shyness, aggression, depression, and intelligence.
In the tradition of Listening to Prozac, this is a wonderfully anecdote-filled book that explains how we arrive at the idea of self in an ever-changing scientific landscape.
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ISBN-10: 0385485840
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:Anchor Books.
Editura: Anchor Books
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Notă biografică
Peter Copeland, a journalist based in Washington, DC, has published four books. His first book, She Went to War, was written with Rhonda Cornum, a U.S. Army doctor who was a POW in Iraq. He wrote My Soul Purpose with Heidi von Beltz. Copeland and Dean Hamer colaborated on The Science of Desire and Living With Our Genes.
Peter Copeland was the editor and general manager of Scripps Howard News Service. He started his journalism career at the City News Bureau of Chicago, covered the U.S.-Mexico border for the El Paso Herald-Post, and spent five years covering Latin America based in Mexico City. He covered the Pentagon for five years, including the U.S. invasion of Panama, the Gulf War and the invasion of Somalia. Currently he is a writer and media consultant.