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A provoking and controversial analysis of the theory of our inability to learn something really new and of the extent to which our behavior is determined by our genes
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Wolfgang Wieser, translated from his review in "Merkur" (Sept./Oct. 1999)
Reviews
From the reviews:
"All knowledge of the individual is located in the genome, argues Heschl. With such a radicality he goes much further than many other researchers like Richard Dawkins, the advocate of the selfish gene."
Frankfurter Allgemeine, translated from issue June 17, 1998.
"We cannot exclude the possibility that Heschl is simply right."
Josef H. Reichholf, translated from "Psychologie heute" (July 1999)
"I basically agree with Heschl's theses."
Manfred Eigen, translated from a personal letter to the author (Nov. 1999)
"Written by a trained ethologist and genetic epistemologist, and translated from the 1998 German original, The Intelligent Genome highlights how little we know about the genetic determination of human behaviour. … Although a very intense text, readers of this book may be drawn from various disciplines … . A rich source of bibliography and widely drawn quotes from famous philosophers and scientists, the book can also be a good research resource and reference book for any library collection." (Harjeet Khanna, Today’s Life Science, Vol. 14 (5), 2002)
"Burying the myth of the human miracle, the author Adolf Heschl goes beyond any known theories. … In a clear-cut scientific approach, Heschl claims that intelligence, although individually shaped throughout life, already pre-exists in the genome. … The author analyses theories of scientists such as Darwin, Lamarck or Weisman, at the same time taking a highly critical look at his own point of view. Following the road of mankind, the reader is taken on both an ambitious and entertaining journey." (Science in Africa, March, 2002)
Authors and Affiliations
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Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria
Adolf Heschl
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Intelligent Genome
Book Subtitle: On the Origin of the Human Mind by Mutation and Selection
Authors: Adolf Heschl
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04874-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-67166-4Published: 01 December 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08648-9Published: 01 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-04874-0Published: 17 April 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 355
Topics: Zoology, Anthropology, Philosophy, general, Human Genetics