{"product_id":"the-agile-gene-matt-ridley-9780060006792","title":"The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balanced--witty, too. . . . A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience.\" -- Oliver Sacks\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArmed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the nature-versus-nurture debate in a thoughtful book about the roots of human behavior.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRidley 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. With the decoding of the human genome, we now know that genes not only predetermine the broad structure of the brain, they also absorb formative experiences, react to social cues, and even run memory. They are consequences as well as causes of the will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matt Ridley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 006000679X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060006792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.24w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScitech Book News\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2004 pg. 150","brand":"Matt Ridley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044018909439,"sku":"9780060006792","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_89e8977b-7609-4962-9c96-0f5677df515f.jpg?v=1684970453","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-agile-gene-matt-ridley-9780060006792","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}