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    Beyond human nature : how culture and experience shape the human mind / Jesse J. Prinz.

    By: Prinz, Jesse JMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 2012Edition: 1st American edDescription: xii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393061758; 0393061752; 9780393347890; 0393347893Subject(s): Mind and body | Thought and thinking | Mind and body | Thought and thinking | Entwicklung | Lernen | Erbe-Umwelt-Problem | Erfahrung | Soziales Lernen | Mind and body | Thought and thinkingDDC classification: 155.2/34 LOC classification: BF161 | .P745 2012
    Contents:
    The nature-nurture debate -- Where do traits come from? : Putting the genome back in the bottle ; Get smart -- Where does knowledge come from? : What babies know ; Sensible ideas -- Where does language come from? : The gift of the gab ; Words and worlds -- Where does thinking come from? : The Tao of thought ; Gender and geometry -- Where do feelings come from? : Fear and loathing in Micronesia ; Gladness and madness -- Where do values come from? : Coping with cannibalism ; In bed with Darwin.
    Summary: A cognitive scientist describes how the influence of experience and culture can override DNA in an attempt to shatter the myth that illness and addiction are unavoidable as dictated by genetic composition.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-387) and index.

    The nature-nurture debate -- Where do traits come from? : Putting the genome back in the bottle ; Get smart -- Where does knowledge come from? : What babies know ; Sensible ideas -- Where does language come from? : The gift of the gab ; Words and worlds -- Where does thinking come from? : The Tao of thought ; Gender and geometry -- Where do feelings come from? : Fear and loathing in Micronesia ; Gladness and madness -- Where do values come from? : Coping with cannibalism ; In bed with Darwin.

    A cognitive scientist describes how the influence of experience and culture can override DNA in an attempt to shatter the myth that illness and addiction are unavoidable as dictated by genetic composition.

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