the complex interplay of genetic and environmental influences on human behavior and development /
edited by Cynthia García Coll, Elaine L. Bearer, Richard M. Lerner.
Mahwah, N.J. :
Lawrence Erlbaum,
2004.
1 online resource (xxiii, 253 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Foreword / Steven E. Hyman -- Introduction: Nature and Nurture in Human Behavior and Development: A View of the Issues / Cynthia Garcia Coll, Elaine L. Bearer, and Richard M. Lerner -- Genes and the Promotion of Positive Human Development: Hereditarian Versus Developmental Systems Perspectives / Richard M. Lerner -- How Gene-Environment Interactions Influence Emotional Development in Rhesus Monkeys / Stephen J. Suomi -- Nature, Nurture, and the Question of "How?": A Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory / Margaret Beale Spencer and Vinay Harpalani -- Commentary / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Normally Occurring Environmental and Behavioral Influences on Gene Activity: From Central Dogma to Probabilistic Epigenesis / Gilbert Gottlieb -- Beyond Heritability: Biological Process in Social Context / Richard Rende -- Uniqueness, Diversity, Similarity, Repeatability, and Heritability / Jerry Hirsch -- Commentary / Lundy Braun -- Instinct and Choice: A Framework for Analysis / William T. Dickens and Jessica L. Cohen -- Behavior as Influence and Result of the Genetic Program: Non-kin Rejection, Ethnic Conflict, and Issues in Global Health Care / Elaine L. Bearer -- Embodied Development: Ending the Nativism-Empiricism Debate / Willis F. Overton -- Conclusions: Beyond Nature Versus Nurture to More Complex, Relational, and Dynamic Developmental Systems / Cynthia Garcia Coll, Elaine L. Bearer, and Richard M. Lerner.
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A product of a conference held at Brown University in 2001, this volume suggests that genes and environments work together interactively in a complex fashion. It presents a variety of views on the ways in which dynamic, mutually interactive systems in the genetic and environmental domains operate.