Genes, determinism and God / Denis Alexander.

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Main Author: Alexander, Denis (Denis Raven), 1945- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Human personhood fragmented? : nature-nurture discourse from antiquity to Galton
  • Reifying the fragments? : nature-nurture discourse from Galton to the twenty-first century
  • The impact of the new genetics? : how contemporary biology is changing the landscape of ideas
  • Reshaping the matrix? : integrating the human in contemporary biology
  • Is the worm determined? : gene variation and behaviour in animals
  • Prisoners of the genes? : understanding quantitative behavioural genetics
  • Behavioural molecules? : understanding molecular behavioural genetics
  • Mensa, mediocrity or meritocracy? : the genetics of intelligence, religiosity and politics
  • Gay genes? : genetics and sexual orientation
  • Not my fault? : the use of genetics in the legal system
  • Causality, emergence and freedom? : tackling some tough philosophical questions
  • Made in the image of God? : a conversation between genetics and theology.