Intelligent Genome : On the Origin of the Human Mind by Mutation and Selection

Heschl, Adolf; Loserl, H. (ILT)

ISBN 10: 3642086489 / ISBN 13: 9783642086489

Published by Springer, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Intelligent Genome : On the Origin of the Human Mind by Mutation and Selection
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642086489
• ISBN 13: 9783642086489
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Do our genes determine our behavior? Do education and environment have any influence at all? Do humans occupy a unique position in evolution? To clarify these provoking questions, the author takes the reader on an ambitious and entertaining journey through a variety of scientific disciplines. In doing so, he creates an image of human evolution that says that our entire individual knowledge is determined - to the smallest detail - by phylogeny. " ... before shocked humanists discard such radical theses as mere nonsense, they should not completely close their minds to the explanations of a biologist who says that we still know very little about the genetic determination of human behavior and that the invariance of many forms of behavior present in all cultures nourish the suspicion that the determining role of genes is probably far more comprehensive than we have ever dreamed."
Wolfgang Wieser, translated from his review in "Merkur" (Sept./Oct. 1999)

From the Inside Flap

Biological evolution works according to the simple principle of differential reproduction: the varying rate of procreation of autonomous individuals. For this purpose, the necessary variation in the "equipment" of different individuals is derived from random changes, the genetic mutations of the underlying hereditary information. The present book documents for the first time that — and in particular why — this simple principle is also unreservedly applicable to the human species. The result is a picture of human evolution which says that even our individual knowledge is determined down to the smallest detail by phylogeny.