Beyond Nature and Nurture: Conceiving a Better Way to Understand Genes and Memes

Baofu, Peter

ISBN 10: 1847180485 / ISBN 13: 9781847180483

Published by Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, U. K., 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond Nature and Nurture: Conceiving a Better Way to Understand Genes and Memes
• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, U. K.
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847180485
• ISBN 13: 9781847180483
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science - Genetics/Biology/Evolution

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Synopsis

Why are some individuals relatively more successful than others in achievement? And why are some countries (or regions), for that matter, relatively more successful than others in development? Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many, Dr. Baofu argues that the nature-nurture debate is misleading and faulty, since his “transcendent approach” is to show how and why the two are closely intertwined in producing the behavioral differences as often seen in individual human endeavors on the micro scale, and for that matter, in country (or regional) endeavors on the macro one—without, however, committing “the compromise fallacy” as often seen in an in-between alternative. The debate also obscures something more tremendous in the long run, in relation to the emergence of what Dr. Baofu originally proposed as the “post-human” world that humans have never known, when human genes will no longer exist. Human genes have their days numbered.

About the Author

Dr. Peter Baofu is also the author of The Future of Post-Human Space-Time (2006), Beyond Civilization to Post-Civilization (2006), Beyond Capitalism to Post-Capitalism (2005), Beyond Democracy to Post-Democracy (2 volumes, 2004), The Future of Post-Human Consciousness (2004), The Future of Capitalism and Democracy (2002), and The Future of Human Civilization (2 volumes, 2000). He earned an entry to the list of 'prominent and emerging writers' in Contemporary Authors (2005) and was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in the Far East. He had taught as a professor at different universities in Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and North America. He finished more than 5 academic degrees, including a Ph.D. from M.I.T., and was a summa cum laude graduate.