Synthesizing Nature-nurture - Prenatal Roots of Instinctive Behavior

List of contents

Contents: Series Preface. Preface. Formulating Probabilistic Epigenesis. Preliminaries to an Explicit Experimental Demonstration of Probabilistic Epigenesis. Experimental Demonstration of Probabilistic Epigenesis (in Two Parts). Perceptual Capabilities of Mallard Duck Embryos: Clarifying the Role of Experience. Experimental Demonstration of Probabilistic Epigenesis in Wood Ducklings. Experiential Canalization of Species-Specific Behavior. Modifiability of Species-Specific Behavior. Evolution of Probabilistic Epigenesis: History and Current Status of a Developmental-Psychobiological Systems Viewpoint. Toward a New Developmental and Evolutionary Synthesis.

About the author

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Summary

This volume provides a primarily non-technical summary of experimental and theoretical work on the nature-nurture problem. It suggests that the relationship beween genes and early experiences opens up the evolution of the mind - in the womb and during childhood.

Product details

• Authors: Gilbert Gottlieb
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1997
• EAN: 9780805825480
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-2548-0
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works