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The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture (Paperback)
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The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture (Paperback)
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Loot Price R597
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In this powerful critique, the esteemed historian and philosopher
of science Evelyn Fox Keller addresses the nature-nurture debates,
including the persistent disputes regarding the roles played by
genes and the environment in determining individual traits and
behavior. Keller is interested in both how an oppositional
“versus” came to be inserted between nature and nurture, and
how the distinction on which that opposition depends, the idea that
nature and nurture are separable, came to be taken for granted.
How, she asks, did the illusion of a space between nature and
nurture become entrenched in our thinking, and why is it so
tenacious? Keller reveals that the assumption that the influences
of nature and nurture can be separated is neither timeless nor
universal, but rather a notion that emerged in Anglo-American
culture in the late nineteenth century. She shows that the
seemingly clear-cut nature-nurture debate is riddled with
incoherence. It encompasses many disparate questions knitted
together into an indissoluble tangle, and it is marked by a chronic
ambiguity in language. There is little consensus about the meanings
of terms such as nature, nurture, gene, and environment. Keller
suggests that contemporary genetics can provide a more appropriate,
precise, and useful vocabulary, one that might help put an end to
the confusion surrounding the nature-nurture controversy.
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