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Making Sense of the Nature–Nurture Debate

Review of Neven Sesardic (2005), Making Sense of Heritability. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

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  1. Jensen’s genetic hypothesis was defended and extended by advocates such as Herrnstein (1971, 1973) and Eysenck (1971, 1973).

  2. Lewontin’s appeal to G × E, rGE, and potential environments as a criticism of Jensen was also developed and advanced by his Harvard colleague David Layzer (Layzer 1972a, b, 1974).

  3. Levin (1997) offers the only other book-length attack on the Lewontonian consensus by a philosopher.

  4. Curiously, the only mention Sesardic does make of the research by Caspi and Moffitt (Caspi et al. 2002) is in Chap. 3, where he mistakes their research as being on genotype-environment correlation rather than on genotype-environment interaction (p. 124).

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Tabery, J. Making Sense of the Nature–Nurture Debate . Biol Philos 24, 711–723 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-009-9152-3

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