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Challenging Genetic Determinism

New Perspectives on the Gene in Its Multiple Environments

edited by Louis Maheu & Roderick A. Macdonald

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2011
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773538139
    Publish Date
    Aug 2011
    List Price
    $37.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773537804
    Publish Date
    Aug 2011
    List Price
    $110.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773586543
    Publish Date
    Aug 2011
    List Price
    $95.00

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Advances in genetic research have captured the attention of the media and the public through reports about genetically caused diseases and behaviours. However, all too often the coverage of scientists’ innovations has implied that genetic factors alone are responsible for effects ranging from personality and sexual preferences to morbid obesity and intellectual disabilities. Challenging Genetic Determinism argues that hypotheses cannot be based solely on genetic factors but must take into account the context in which these factors occur.

About the authors

Louis Maheu is professor emeritus of sociology at Université de Montréal, fellow of CIRANO, and co-editor of Challenging Genetic Determinism: New Perspectives on the Gene in Its Multiple Environments.

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