Book contents
- Understanding the Nature–Nurture Debate
- Understanding Life
- Understanding the Nature–Nurture Debate
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Genesis: Why Do We Care About Nature–Nurture?
- 2 The Worst Legacy of Francis Galton
- 3 Statistical Science and the Invention of Heritability
- 4 Reports of Galton’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
- 5 Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
- 6 Plomin’s Predictions and the Human Genome Project
- 7 GWAS Unchained, GWAS Unwound
- 8 Intelligence
- 9 IQ, Race, and Genetics
- 10 Nature–Nurture and the Possibility of Human Science
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References and Further Reading
- Figure and Quotation Credits
- Index
7 - GWAS Unchained, GWAS Unwound
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2024
- Understanding the Nature–Nurture Debate
- Understanding Life
- Understanding the Nature–Nurture Debate
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Genesis: Why Do We Care About Nature–Nurture?
- 2 The Worst Legacy of Francis Galton
- 3 Statistical Science and the Invention of Heritability
- 4 Reports of Galton’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
- 5 Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
- 6 Plomin’s Predictions and the Human Genome Project
- 7 GWAS Unchained, GWAS Unwound
- 8 Intelligence
- 9 IQ, Race, and Genetics
- 10 Nature–Nurture and the Possibility of Human Science
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References and Further Reading
- Figure and Quotation Credits
- Index
Summary
The reader should be officially informed that in this chapter I take leave of the widely accepted consensus about nature–nurture. This is not a textbook, and everything that I have said up to now has been very much my own take on things, but for the most part I have not strayed far from what most scientists would say about the intellectual history of nature and nurture. Not everyone perhaps, but most people agree that Galton was a racist, eugenics a moral and scientific failure, heritability of behavioral differences nearly universal, heritability a less than useful explanatory concept, twin studies an interesting but ultimately limited research paradigm, and linkage and candidate gene analysis of human behavior decisive failures.
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- Understanding the Nature‒Nurture Debate , pp. 100 - 115Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024