Nature and Nurture: The Complex Interplay of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Human Behavior and Development

Table of contents

• Nature and Nurture - The Complex Interplay of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Human Behavior and Development *
• Title Page *
• Contents v
• Foreword - Behavioral Genetics in the Post-Genomic Era vii
• Preface xv
• Introduction - Nature and Nurture in Human Behavior and Development: a View of the Issues xvii
• References xxiii
• 1 - Genes and the Promotion of Positive Human Development: Hereditarian Versus Developmental Systems Perspectives 1
• References 25
• 2 - How Gene-Environment Interactions Influence Emotional Development in Rhesus Monkeys 35
• References *
• 3 - Nature, Nurture, and the Question of “how?”:A Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory 53
• References *
• 4 - Commentary 79
• References *
• 5 - Normally Occurring Environmental and Behavioral Influences on Gene Activity: from Central Dogma to Probabilistic Epigenesis 85
• References *
• 6 - Beyond Heritability: Biological Process in Social Context 107
• References *
• 7 - Uniqueness, Diversity, Similarity, Repeatability, and Heritability 127
• References *
• 8 - Commentary 139
• References *
• 9 - Instinct and Choice: a Framework for Analysis 145
• References *
• 10 - Behavior as Influence and Result of the Genetic Program: Non-Kin Rejection, Ethnic Conflict, and Issues in Global Health Care 171
• References *
• 11 - Embodied Development: Ending the Nativism-Empiricism Debate 201
• References 219
• 12 - Conclusions: Beyond Nature Versus Nurture to More Complex, Relational, and Dynamic Developmental Systems 225
• References 230
• Author Index 231
• Subject Index 241

Work saved from this book