--- Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A month old, but I haven't seen it posted yet. (Of > course, I'm hundreds of > posts behind again, so if it has, my apologies.) > Ridley is the author of > 'Genome' and 'Nature via Nurture'. > http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ridley03/ridley_print.html > > Excerpt: > "What's happened is that genetic changes are > necessary to enable kinds of > learning, to enable kinds of nurture, and to enable > kinds of experience to > get into the organism. In that sense genes are just > as important a part of > the story of nurture as they are the story of > nature. When you start to see > it that way, you can resolve the old > nature-versus-nurture debate, and you > can instead start to talk about nature via nurture > instead. <snip>
Good article - thanks for posting this. And while I first read about it elsewhere, I couldn't remember the details of the study that correlates a gene variant (an MAO enzyme) to violent adult behavior, but _only_ if the child is abused (it's noted in here). It will be interesting to see what the interactions are WRT genes/personality/environment. Debbi I Ride, Therefore I Am Maru :) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
