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020 _z9780521828185 (hardback)
020 _z9780521173339 (paperback)
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050 0 0 _aBF341
_b.S47 2005
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100 1 _aSesardić, Neven,
_d1949-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMaking sense of heritability :
_bhow not to think about behavior genetics /
_cNeven Sesardic.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2005.
300 _a1 online resource (xiii, 267 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge studies in philosophy and biology
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0 _aThe nature-nurture debate : a premature burial? -- A tangle of interactions : separating genetic and environmental influences -- Lost in correlations? direct and indirect genetic causes -- From individuals to groups : genetics and race -- Genes and malleability -- Science and sensitivity.
520 _aIn this book, 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 of any interest. In a series of clearly written chapters he introduces the reader to the problems and subjects the arguments to close philosophical scrutiny. His conclusion is that anti-heritability arguments are based on conceptual confusions and misunderstandings of behavioural genetics. His book is a fresh and compelling intervention in a very contentious debate.
650 0 _aNature and nurture.
650 0 _aBehavior genetics.
650 0 _aGenetic psychology.
650 0 _aEnvironmental psychology.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521828185
830 0 _aCambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487378
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