Lifelines: Life beyond the Gene

Lifelines: Life beyond the Gene
ISBN-10
0198034245
ISBN-13
9780198034247
Series
Lifelines
Category
Science
Pages
356
Language
English
Published
2003-10-09
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Steven Rose

Description

A distinct voice in the nature/nurture debate, Rose's series of essays are a response to the biological reductionism of Richard Dawkins's book, The Selfish Gene (OUP, 1990), which insists that all aspects of human life are in our genes, and everything arises as a consequence of natural selection. Rose argues that life depends on the elaborate web of interactions that occur within cells, organisms, and ecosystems, and in which DNA has but one part to play.

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