--- Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Behalf Of Deborah Harrell
> > --- Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ridley03/ridley_print.html
> > >
> > > Excerpt:
> > > "What's happened is that genetic changes are
> > > necessary to enable kinds of
> > > learning, to enable kinds of nurture, and to
> enable kinds of experience to
> > > get into the organism. In that sense genes are
> just as important a part of
> > > the story of nurture as they are the story of
> > > nature. When you start to see
> > > it that way, you can resolve the old
> > > nature-versus-nurture debate, and you
> > > can instead start to talk about nature via
> nurture instead...
> >
> > Good article - thanks for posting this.
>
> Ka Wow! Catching up? :-)
More like dogpaddling with my nose just above the sea
of 'stuff I'm supposed to read.' :o{
<snip>
>
> > It will be interesting to see what the
> > interactions are WRT
genes/personality/environment.
>
> Very. The concept of diseases being caused by a
> specific combination of
> environmental factors and gene expression is
> starting to be examined.
> IOW, a person may have a genetic tendency to develop
> a particular
> disease but won't if a particular stimulus is
> lacking from their environment
Yes - I'm looking forward to the NIMH project results,
although some of those will be decades in the
discovering (as they haven't even started yet!).
Debbi
7 Out Of 10 Maru (you're *mostly* safe, my liver!) :)
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