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Evelyn Fox Keller
Well written, well researched, thoughtful, and ambitious. Beyond Versus is perhaps the best effort yet to overcome the explanatory divide separating the contributions of population genetics from those of developmental biology to the science of nature and nurture.
Endorsement
Tabery has written an excellent book describing how recent biology shows that the nature-nurture dispute has been misplaced. Rather, the time has come to understand the interdependence of multiple factors in the genesis of traits in all organisms, especially complex behavioral and disease traits in humans. This book will prove to be useful to all those who want to move beyond the futile debates of the last century and to embrace a new understanding of what it means to be human in the postgenomic era.
—Sahotra Sarkar, Professor of Philosophy and Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin; author of Genetics and Reductionism and Molecular Models of Life
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Well written, well researched, thoughtful, and ambitious. Beyond Versus is perhaps the best effort yet to overcome the explanatory divide separating the contributions of population genetics from those of developmental biology to the science of nature and nurture.
—Evelyn Fox Keller, Professor Emerita of the History and Philosophy of Science, MIT; author of The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture
No scientific field illustrates the illumination philosophy can provide to empirical science as well as the genetics of complex traits in humans, and no work of philosophy has shone as much light on human genetics as Beyond Versus. Tabery's book combines history, philosophical analysis, data, and bioethics; I expect it will transform the long historical discussion of nature and nurture.
—Eric Turkheimer, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
Tabery's tracing of the statistical and mechanical concepts of interaction through key debates over the respective roles of 'nature' and 'nurture' casts important light on the assumptions generating those debates. His further effort to show how seemingly incompatible research informed by those concepts could be integrated is a welcome addition to the growing literature on scientific pluralism.
—Helen Longino, C. I. Lewis Professor in Philosophy, Stanford University; author of Studying Human Behavior
Tabery has written an excellent book describing how recent biology shows that the nature-nurture dispute has been misplaced. Rather, the time has come to understand the interdependence of multiple factors in the genesis of traits in all organisms, especially complex behavioral and disease traits in humans. This book will prove to be useful to all those who want to move beyond the futile debates of the last century and to embrace a new understanding of what it means to be human in the postgenomic era.
—Sahotra Sarkar, Professor of Philosophy and Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin; author of Genetics and Reductionism and Molecular Models of Life
Eric Turkheimer
No scientific field illustrates the illumination philosophy can provide to empirical science as well as the genetics of complex traits in humans, and no work of philosophy has shone as much light on human genetics as Beyond Versus. Tabery's book combines history, philosophical analysis, data, and bioethics; I expect it will transform the long historical discussion of nature and nurture.
Helen Longino
Tabery's tracing of the statistical and mechanical concepts of interaction through key debates over the respective roles of 'nature' and 'nurture' casts important light on the assumptions generating those debates. His further effort to show how seemingly incompatible research informed by those concepts could be integrated is a welcome addition to the growing literature on scientific pluralism.
Sahotra Sarkar
Tabery has written an excellent book describing how recent biology shows that the nature-nurture dispute has been misplaced. Rather, the time has come to understand the interdependence of multiple factors in the genesis of traits in all organisms, especially complex behavioral and disease traits in humans. This book will prove to be useful to all those who want to move beyond the futile debates of the last century and to embrace a new understanding of what it means to be human in the postgenomic era.
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