At 9:48 AM -0500 3/19/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 19 Mar 2008 at 8:57, Christopher D. Green wrote:
It's a whole new game out there and our old claims about the
effects of > genes will soon look very much like our old claims
about the effects of > phrenology -- based on a deep
misunderstanding of the ways in which
things actually work.
Well, I'm not aware of any wholesale trashing or abandonment of what we
know of genetics, or even of behaviour genetics, even as the field moves
ahead with impressive achievements.
Do those achievement include any practical applications?
If we can ask for references for the
bold assertions of Michael S., perhaps this equally bold claim deserves a
reference or two.
And even old phrenology may deserve a better press. It never completely
disappeared--it turned into localization of function and, more recently,
functional imaging studies.
That's why Bill Uttal wrote a book entitled The New Phrenology.
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