"I ought to write it out a hundred time as punishment: GENES ARE NOT THERE TO CAUSE DISEASES". Ridley discusses a common misconception that most people have; genes are here to cause diseases, instead diseases are caused when genes are mutated or altered. The next topic Ridley mentioned was one based on intelligence and it is involved with the sixth chromosome. He brings up the conflict of intelligence being due to nature and/or nurture. Genes being the cause would be nature; however, when the environment becomes a factor nurture would be the cause of one's intelligence. He then elaborated on the topic of intelligence by relating it to several experiments, some involved psychology, humans, and others.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Genome Chapter Summary (6)
Chromosome 6: Intelligence
"I ought to write it out a hundred time as punishment: GENES ARE NOT THERE TO CAUSE DISEASES". Ridley discusses a common misconception that most people have; genes are here to cause diseases, instead diseases are caused when genes are mutated or altered. The next topic Ridley mentioned was one based on intelligence and it is involved with the sixth chromosome. He brings up the conflict of intelligence being due to nature and/or nurture. Genes being the cause would be nature; however, when the environment becomes a factor nurture would be the cause of one's intelligence. He then elaborated on the topic of intelligence by relating it to several experiments, some involved psychology, humans, and others.
"I ought to write it out a hundred time as punishment: GENES ARE NOT THERE TO CAUSE DISEASES". Ridley discusses a common misconception that most people have; genes are here to cause diseases, instead diseases are caused when genes are mutated or altered. The next topic Ridley mentioned was one based on intelligence and it is involved with the sixth chromosome. He brings up the conflict of intelligence being due to nature and/or nurture. Genes being the cause would be nature; however, when the environment becomes a factor nurture would be the cause of one's intelligence. He then elaborated on the topic of intelligence by relating it to several experiments, some involved psychology, humans, and others.
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